Penguin Books debuts Jack Kerouac iPad App

Goodereader reports:
Penguin Books has released their first iPad application and delivers an enhanced experience of the seminal Beat Generation classic ‘On the Road’ by Jack Kerouac.
You can look at this new application as the original 1957 classic that defined a generation and a mix of bonus materials. These ‘extras’ includes rare and never-before-seen material: Kerouac family photos, and even audio clips of Kerouac himself. If you fancy yourself an aspiring bohemian beatnik you can walk the path of Jack with fully interactive maps of his legendary trips from 1947, 1949 and 1950. There will also be documents and notes that Jack wrote while on the road.
The original publisher of On the Road was Viking and they have generously donated tons of content to Penguins application. They are coughing up correspondence between Kerouac and the book editors during the writing of the book. Who knows where he found the time but wrote the entire book in three weeks on one giant roll of typing paper.
 On the Road features the dynamics between Jacks character Sal Paradise and Neal Cassady’s alter ego Dean Moriarty. The book chronicled Jack and Neal traveling all over America in Cars, hitchhiking and hoping on trains. While traveling they meet a colorful montage of characters who end up being some the greatest writers of the modern era.
The one factor of the book that amazed me the most is that it introduced the reader to many other writers who were friends of Jacks and were superb novelists in their own right. Literary stalwarts such as William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg and Ken Kesey were all friends of Jack and where featured in On the Road.
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