Snarkmarket on storytelling on the iPad:

And now this new device takes the iPhone’s virtues and scales them up—plus, no text mes­sages while you’re read­ing. So more than any­thing else, the iPad looks to me like a focus machine. And it looks, there­fore, like such an oppor­tu­nity for sto­ry­telling, and for inno­va­tion around sto­ry­telling. It looks like an oppor­tu­nity to make the Myst of 2010.

If Robin is right, the multimedia ebook may have just found its messiah.