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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
Publishing interactive ebook now means cut potential costumers, this is true - btw - because Kindle do not allow to use javascript in kf8, so you can not convert EPUB3 for the Amazon world. But, as publisher and writer, I need to do this because the digital reading is stagnating: on one side we have low-profile ebook that are not "digital books" but "digitalised book". On the other side we have real digital ebook... build as App, or wunderkammer fixed layout. I think publishers have to show that interactive ebooks are a normal form of contemporary narrative and not an exotic extravaganza for tablet.
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I don't think sales will justify the time/effort to create interactive eBooks. The problem is most reading software has not caught up to handling interactive ePub 3. I don't know if Access and/or RMDSK on my H2O will handle interactive ePub 3. I know my nook STR and Sony Reader PRS-T1 won't handle them. There are a lot of Readers out there being used where interactive ePub 3 will not work. And given that Kindle's won't as well, that leaves out most people who read eBooks.
You would need people who read on a smartphone or tablet to do the bulk of the purchases of these interactive eBooks. The software has to handle things before the eBooks are available because it's no good creating the eBooks when there's not really that many ways to read them.