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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
It would be IMHO as a consumer, completely sufficient would they repeat their sanity roll,
understand that a book isn't an interactive jukebox, kick out all the stuff belonging to the latter implement things which are important for books and after! having done this well and rock solid go and play with new ideas for next generation devices which might then be available.
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A good start.
A better one would be to ditch all the fixed layout stuff along with the interactivity into a separate format for textbooks and academic papers.
That way, people who actually *need* those features in their documents can get a (pricier) reader that can do them (Probably a PC with a new reading app.) instead of trying to squeeze them out of a $99 gadget.
Trying to create a super format requires a super reader at a time when the bulk of the ebook money is still in narrative text. There is no economic incentive for the walled-garden vendors to take on the expense and complexity of the full (or even near-full) spec. No yet.
So far, trying to use the consumer side of the industry to ramp up the academic side is not working; it didn't work when Amazon did the DX, and it hasn't worked for the other high-feature readers like Plastic Logic, Ectaco, etc. For now the market seems to prefer its readers small and cheap and its ebooks simple and cheaper still.