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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Unfortunately, that is not an option. You can't enhance the quality of the product to sell a luxury version. (You can do that with music and video, by offering higher resolution (quality) options.) But other than offering higher quality resolution luxury options, there isn't anything else you can really meaningfully do, digitally. (where the digital is wedded to an analog form, like a disc, you can offer all sort of trinkets as a luxury product, but in the end the enjoyment of the primary product, the digital product, is no different than the econo version...)
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That's certainly true for your average novel, but Penguin Classics do "enhanced eBook" versions of some books in their range which are very nicely done indeed - "Pride and Prejudice" is one that I have.
In addition to the introduction and footnotes of the "Standard" version of the book, the "enhanced" content is:
- Filmography.
- Nineteenth-Century Reviews
- Chronology
- Further Reading
- What Austen Ate
- How to Prepare Tea
- Austen Sites to Visit in England
- Behaving Yourself: Etiquette and Dancing in Austen’s Day
- Illustrations of Fashion, Home Decor, Architecture, and Transportation
- Explanatory Notes
Which really does add a lot to the book.