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Originally Posted by darryl
When does a book cease to be a book?.
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This is exactly the question at hand. The reading community and authors need to draw a line in the corporatized sand here. "This much and no further!" A book is just words. Period. No ads. No Twitter or Facebook stream. No animations (sorry, use your imagination. That's what it's for.)
The funny thing is to hear executives defend this stuff. They will defend anything. It's illustrative to remember that these individuals have been indoctrinated to view their customers as 10-year-olds. So, in their mind, their subconcious thought process is always, "Would a 10-year-old like a book with all these distractions: Yes!"
However, when we consider that there is already considerable pushback from older demigraphics to adopt ebooks in the first place, these types of moves may be a form of self-sabotage for the industry.