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Originally Posted by allinhi/
I envision a future where the publishers role is to add the features people have mentioned. Background music, maps, footnotes linking the reader to artwork or a photo of a location used etc. Otherwise authors, especially those with an estabished reader base will just contract for copy editing services and keep more than the customary 12% common now. This assumes the majority of books are distributed digitally, who know how long that will take?
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Publishers start messing with the authors' ideas... now that is a guarantee that that publisher will be avoided like the plague... if you want ebooks plus then go rent a DVD... I don't need a third party to provide pictures and sound for me... that's what an "imagination" is for in conjunction with the "words" It's called reading for a reason...
Now provide a teaching text book with videos etc and that's another matter but you can already get stuff like that... take a look at Rosetta and Linda products for example but they don't claim to be ebooks either and their are many computer books that come with extra digital material on an included CD/DVD (which often includes the book as PDF or html)... nothing new there either...