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I would argue that we need an entirely different term for these multi-media enhanced thingies. They are clearly NOT books, just as "graphic novels" are NOT books...related, similar test-heavy media, sure, but NOT books..
Books are static files, sometimes with some images and pictures.
I personally really like traditional books and am perfectly happy paying for them. And I want to have access to them instead of being forced to purchase these hybrid things with added multi-media doo-dads.
Multi-media CDs (like the Encyclopedia CDs of the late 1990s) really WERE kind of neat. Web pages with all kinds of multi-media are also neat. But they are NOT books.
It's time to come up with a term for such "neither fish nor fowl" self-contained multi-media products...I suspect once they are properly categorized, there will a lot more openess and less confusion/resistance about them.
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