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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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Oh, well. Sorry, but if there are arguments in the world designed to change my view, telling me that some academic is "studying" it is the very last way. Academia spends its entire existence in love with itself and blithely ignoring anything in the workaday world. Been there, done that.
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Waiting Godot? A document with some man talking? How's that a book? That's paper.
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No. It's still a book. Even if a book is simply dialogue, from one end to the other, it's a book.
When I listen to some guy talking, or, I see an interpretation of a book, on a screen, with live people playing the roles of characters in the written book, I call that a movie. Or, if someone reads a book to me, on some sort of recorded medium, it's an audiobook.
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No re-download al all. I do not call it "magic", I call it "javascript".
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Fine. I'm sure that there will always be folks who want to play with this stuff.
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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.
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Well, to each their own. As I said upthread, if someone wants to pay us to do this sort of thing, great. I've listened to this discussion before, how XXX was going to change entertainment, or the client I had that was going to change audiobooks forever with radio-play style recordings, yabbita. Right up to the point he went Tango Uniform.
{shrug}. You're going to do what you want, and I wish you luck with it. If ePUB3 helps you get there, more power to you.
For many of the rest of us, it's mostly all about foofery or multimedia. You yourself have described most of what you're doing as experimental fiction.
Or, for example, if you're me, you'll get a
stream of ePUB3 books to "fix," because people push a button on something like Vellum or INDD, and then the damned things don't work. I have three books inhouse like that right now. (And, of course, folks who want to pay $10 to have them fixed.)
You're enjoying what you can do with ePUB3. That's great. Commercially, at the moment, if you look at the major devices, it's still
barely supported (or, I should say, most of the more-advanced ePUB3 capabilities are not supported). Perhaps in 5-10 years, we'll be onto ePUB4 or 5 or 10. And you'll be able to make multi-media (in the literal sense) offerings that combine everything into what you'll call an eBook.
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