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Originally Posted by Giggleton
Basically, along with the table of contents, there would be a list of helpers who could be contacted for help with what you are reading(updated to show those who are currently online), click a button on the device, access a protocol in the epub, connect to another.
Roundtable discussions could be facilitated through an epub protocol as well, click a button, get placed in the video stream queue, then stream yourself to the discussion group, through the book. I'm not sure how this would stifle self-expression??
Is this something we want our ebooks to be able to do?
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I mean that it could become standard to follow the view of the majority rather than think for oneself about what a book means. In a sense it could become dogma so that to challenge the dominant view is to be radical or something. Sort of a 1984 situation where everyone would know who has what view of what concept or book etc. Not to say it would happen but (IMO) it could easily become that way if books were connected up like that. The famous slippery slope doesn't look slippery at first after all. It's just a little thing that leads to another and then another.