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Originally Posted by speakingtohe
I don't disagree.
It seems that the average professional author takes about a year to write a book. Would the added time be worth it you or I or the author (in terms of increased income)? Would the public be willing to pay 2-10 times the price?
An unknown or little author would not be able to spend the time and money to do this right IMO.
I think if it was easy or inexpensive everyone would be doing it.
It is not cheap to make a video clip that is going to be an actual enhancement and if you buy a stock bit of video who is that going to impress?
It all looks easy until you try and do it.
Helen
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Copyrighted photos, lyrics, etc. that are used in books now need to be cleared and paid for too.
I'm not talking about creating new material, but using existing material for nonfiction books--and a lot of that may be public domain; look at all the material over at the Internet Archive, for example.
I don't care if the author thinks it's worth it--I'm just saying I think it would be an interesting use of the technology in certain instances.