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Originally Posted by davidwfleming
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.)
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The fact that these things CAN be done doesn't mean that they are appropriate for all books, but there are certain types of book for which they would be extremely useful.
Imagine, for example, a book about bird recogition which could play audio samples of the song of each bird, or a physics textbook with animated diagrams illustrated physical principles. As a member of the "reading community" myself, I can see this as being extremely useful, when used appropriately.