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Originally Posted by HansTWN
A lot of readers just want to read, not a lot of fancy interactive functionality. The multi-media ebook's target market is a completely different one.
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But then even book-like ebooks (without any extra functionalities) don't necessarily play on the same turf as paper-books - they're not bought for the same reason or used the same way.
People don't buy or value paper books because they're convenient, but mostly because of all the imagery associated to it: the weight of Culture, an emotional & physical (smell, touch) bond to the object, the tangible owning of it, putting it on shelves as decoration or a status statement, gifting, etc.
The oh-so-convenient-but-not-tangible-ebook doesn't compete in all of those areas.
If authors/publishers/retailers focus on and develop those paper-specific qualities, I think paper still has a long life ahead of it.