The Beatles' 'Yellow Submarine' Hits iBooks as Free Animated e-Book

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The Beatles today announced the debut of a free animated version of the band's Yellow Submarine book as an exclusive on Apple's iBookstore. Apple is also prominently promoting the release on the main iBookstore page within iTunes and in emails to iTunes users, showing off some of the capabilities of iBooks on the company's mobile devices.

The iBookstore's exclusive 'Yellow Submarine' book takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic, music-filled journey with The Beatles to an underwater dreamland featuring animated illustrations and text from the 2004 book, 14 full-color video clips from the original 1968 film, audio clips of classic Beatles hits and Sir George Martin's original score, original dialogue from the film, "read aloud" functionality to follow along as actor Dean Lennox Kelly narrates, as well as interactive features that let you tap the story's wild array of butterflies, starfish and sea monsters to make them come alive. A video trailer for the book is available for free streaming starting today at www.iTunes.com/TheBeatles.

The press release notes that the book release is in celebration of one year of availability for The Beatles on the iTunes Store. The Beatles have sold over 10 million songs and 1.8 million albums through iTunes since their November 2010 debut.

Apple is also leveraging the Yellow Submarine release to promote its new iBooks 1.5 release, which earlier this week added a night-time reading mode, full-screen mode, and new fonts.

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Yellow Submarine [iTunes Store] is a free 317.5 MB download through the iBookstore. A trailer for the book and a link to purchase the music from the book are available on the main iTunes page for The Beatles [iTunes Store].

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Top Rated Comments

philipk Avatar
178 months ago
Beatles = most overrated band in history.
Apple = most overrated computer in history. :rolleyes:

Yeah, sure. :D
Score: 8 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Shrink Avatar
178 months ago
Beatles = most overrated band in history.

This from the generation who thinks Justin Beiber (spelling?) has talent.:eek:
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Icaras Avatar
178 months ago
amen to that! the world gives them way too much credit.
Like Drunken Master points out, if you can name another band who has a discography as vast as the Beatles, with as much pioneering studio analog techniques over the years as they had, then by all means, we're listening. ;)

You go and try and produce some of their hits on nothing but analog 4 track tape decks, simple reverb effects, and without a computer in sight, and lets see what you come up with.
Score: 6 Votes (Like | Disagree)
AppleScruff1 Avatar
178 months ago
Like Drunken Master points out, if you can name another band who has a discography as vast as the Beatles, with as much pioneering studio analog techniques over the years as they had, then by all means, we're listening. ;)

You go and try and produce some of their hits on nothing but analog 4 track tape decks, simple reverb effects, and without a computer in sight, and lets see what you come up with.

The Rolling Stones.
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Drunken Master Avatar
178 months ago
Beatles = most overrated band in history.
:rolleyes:

Yeah, sure.

I'd like to see you name 10 pop-rock songs from the '60s better than 'A Day in the Life', 'Strawberry Fields', 'Eleanor Rigby' or 'I Am The Walrus'.

Only Jimi Hendrix was on that level back then and they weren't even competing within the same sub genres.
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Hayman1995 Avatar
178 months ago
It's all in the mind you know!
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