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Old 12-19-2010, 10:16 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by screwballl View Post
This is kind of a difficult and slippery slope... at what point does an ebook become a mostly text based video game? If things get bloated much beyond a normal start - beginning - end, there may be a very small niche market for people that may enjoy it but everyone else will do what they have done for centuries, read a normal "book" (in this case electronic form).
You seem to be assuming that the only books people read are fiction. Hardly true, and not especially relevant.

The key, as always, is the content. Electronic format makes possible things not doable in print. What sorts of things are appropriate for the content? How might the book be enhanced? What value will be added by doing so?

I expect to see a lot of "enhanced" ebooks that never should have been, and a smaller number that will make people go "Of course! It's a natural!".
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