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No, I am not automatically relegating ePUB3 to movies. You misunderstand me.
But what I do think is that what you're describing aren't books or literature, either. They are likely something else; but they aren't books in the normal sense.
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electronic literature is... literature and it is not a book. Book is not the only way to transmit culture, novels, news. But this is not a my strange idea: electronic literature is studied in the academic and critical field.
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A document that's the transcriptions of some guy's phone calls to politicians? How's that a book? That's an audio file.
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Waiting Godot? A document with some man talking? How's that a book? That's paper.
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However, that ePUB3 file cannot, and does not, change magically for the user. Right? It's not like you're reaching through the airwaves and altering the file without their participation. They either have to re-download or newly download or (insert something here) to get the updated content.
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No re-download al all. I do not call it "magic", I call it "javascript".
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Just because you can create something in ePUB 3, or ePUB2, doesn't make it a book. I get what excites you, and all that, but again, to me, those are more apps than literature.
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Book? I do not want to make book, I want to share novels, culture, information, game. If ebooks were just mechanical copies of books, all this digital revolution would be a missed opportunity.