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Book publishers will not make multimedia books unless the authors start writing multimedia books and though the technology is there ready to use, that does not seem to be the case. The author/publisher would need to hire more employees, actors and a casting crew and the books would become much more expensive. Next time a new movie is published, note how many digits there are in the budget. Though we can produce illustrated books cheaper than ever before, you seldom see one - though they are easy to include in an ebook and relatively cheap to print, it is too expensive to make the illustrations themselves.
News is different as video is today relatively easy to make and *can* enhance the experience. The disadvantage of video is that you need to be connected to a streaming source or have huge amounts of storage space.
In both cases: Video and Wi-fi hurts battery life and bigger batteries means bigger, heavier and more expensive devices. Personally I want devices to go the other way and anyone who own an iPaq 19xx (or similar) will agree with me.
Jorgen
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