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Personally, I think that Epub3 is a mess, and I would rather have seen the effort expended on Multimedia ebooks directed elsewhere. But I am also a realist. Like it or not, Multimedia EBooks are here to stay and I expect they will do very well. It could be said that to some extent they are the way of the future. Imagine a medical textbook with video's and animations of medical procedures. Or a cookbook with videos of the steps and the ingredients. The potential is for some of these new EBooks to be far superior to their print counterparts, though of course we will also no doubt be inundated with a lot of rubbish. Were I younger I would probably have been able to muster some enthusiasm for the potential.
Now I just hope that the market for plain non-Multimedia ebooks remains strong, and that specialised e-ink readers survive until technology provides us with colour screens which are as easy on the eyes.
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