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From my perspective, one of the biggest benefits of reading is that everything happens at my pace. I can read as fast or as slowly as I want. I can stop and start instantly, just by moving my eyes. There's no need to find the "pause" button if I need to deal with my daughter or the dog has mistaken the cat for a chew toy and I need to pull her off him before he loses patience. I just stop reading.
Sound and video run at their pace, not mine. They need synchronization and that's the problem I have.
Give me innovation in terms of additional text links - give me innovation through images and maps I can explore - don't give me audio/visual content to watch.
I am a reader, not a watcher. I love innovation, I want new ideas in eBooks; but when all the innovations seem to come down to making books more like television, you lose me. One of the reasons I read is because I don't want to watch television. If you want to innovate, innovate for readers, don't try to force what any first year marketing student should have realized we don't want down our throats.
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