It's interesting how some minds are reactive and some are more inquiring and inclusive.
Sure. For fiction there is no need for multi-media. But Harry gave the answer with bird identification. How about how to become a building contractor? You can't teach that in a 15 minute you-tube tutorial. You need a book, and for that subject characters on a white background doesn't work.
Instructional how-to-to-it books cry out for multi-media and it isn't happening yet. Right now open source e-readers are the bottle neck. It's becoming clearer to me by the moment web browsers are a better way to go.
Someone above said "that's not a book that's a web site!" Yes. Sort of. But it's both. I already have website software that looks and acts like a book. I can use it to show black characters on a white background only. I can also add multi-media website like stuff to it at will. That's not useful for fiction but it is VERY useful for other genres.
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