Jody was putting out express books the other day when she came across the book called Roam A novel with music by Alan Lazar. She showed me the book and the Microsoft Tags on certain pages. The book has a 7 part piano soundtrack that was composed by the author. I then went ahead and downloaded Microsoft Tag App to my iPhone to see what would happen. Once the app is loaded onto your smart phone you scan the Tag and it pulls up a youtube video that will play
the song that fits that chapter or section of the book. It was very easy on my phone to download the app (I just went into the iphone's app store and searched for Microsoft Tag) and the book even gives you the website to download the app and how-to directions. Both Jody and I had never seen anything like it before and it is quite a neat idea to combine music and reading!Authors and publishers just keep on surprising us, I wonder how this would work on an eReader like the Ipad or a tablet?!
Hey Miss Em! Thanks so much for following that process all the way with your Smartypants phone. Now I will know how to promote these new items to patrons!
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