Californian e-book highlights 'Unbeaten' season
The Bakersfield Californian has just released "Unbeaten," its third e-book this year, an iPad-only celebration of Bakersfield High School's unbeaten 2011 football season.
The Drillers' 13-0 season was the latest in a long string of titles for the state's most consistently successful prep-football program.
Louis Amestoy, The Californian's Digital Convergence Manager, used Apple's iBooks Author program to produce the 150-page book that's stuffed with multimedia by repackaging a variety of staff-produced stories and photos with video highlights recorded by BHS staff.
All told, "Unbeaten" includes:
- 132 photos, most never-before-published.
- 41 videos of game highlights.
- Game stories, stats and Californian prep reporter Zach Ewing's richly reported live-blog posts.
- Features on head coach Paul Golla and Drillers legend Frank Gifford, and more.