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Originally Posted by HarryT
This is a very silly argument. Multimedia apps don't "threaten" books any more than TV or radio does. It's a different medium, that's all.
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This.
There has always been a small (but vibrant) niche of very graphics oriented paper books - like the "Griffin and Sabine" books from the early 90's, with removable postcards, etc. These books couldn't be converted to mass-market paperbacks, but were able to coexist beside them and appealed to the same group of readers.
AppBooks (for lack of a better word) are similar. They're not competition to traditional books (e-books or otherwise) because they don't really overlap much. "The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore," is an interesting AppBook, and has been fairly successful. But it isn't a threat to existing books.
Movies and TV are a much greater threat to existing books.