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Originally Posted by queenfrostine
It does so only because of the limitations of its printed format. If a cook book ebook took advantage of its digital format by including instructional videos on, say, proper knife skills, would doing so really make it less of a book?
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I don't think it would make it less of a book and some places would be equipped to produce something along these lines perhaps.
The problems I see at present are:
Would videos work on an eink device and if not would ample warning be provided?
Would all of the added content be part of the book or would one have to go online to view it? Personally I would be frustrated to have to go online. I would be extremely upset if the online content had it's url changed or if I was away from internet access, but I don't like the idea of accidentally hitting a link and being taken away from where I was for perhaps minutes at a time.
Would the cost of providing the content make the book too expensive? Sure the Food Network already has videos, Time-Life could probably afford to make or purchase them, but what would the author average author have to pay to include video content. Not too much if they are of the quality of YouTube DIY videos, but do I really want that included. Not that I would be likely to look up knife techniques while reading a cookbook, but there are things I might.
Would I have to install a separate app to view the book? I would not be to keen on that idea either. Would I need a separate app for my reader, my tablet, my PC and my Mac? Could happen.
I love looking through cookbooks, and drooling at the pictures, but recently I have noticed a trend in ecookbooks to go picture free. This even in the case of where the paper book is published with pictures. I prefer pictures, but would take better recipes overall even for drooling purposes.
I have downloaded various demos and samples of children's books that were supposedly rich in multimedia content, and found them to be pretty mundane, and/or frustrating to use/view. If they can't do it right with a Nursery Rhyme, I doubt that the wonderful multimedia ecookbook is just around the corner.
Helen