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Originally Posted by Hitch
This is more like that harebrained "Immersedition" thing, that everybody thought was going to be The Next Big Thing, which fizzled out like 3-day old birthday candles on a decrepit cake. Popups, media, yadda-yadda.
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Wow, there, Hitch! Please, don't hold back now, let us all know how you really feel about this
Substantively, however:
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Originally Posted by Hitch
The bottom line is: this isn't what eBooks DO. While yes, eBooks are fundamentally small portable websites, they're not multimedia centers that can do everything, and honestly, that's not what most eBook readers seem to want, so there's bupkus development in that direction.
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I'm beginning to realize that. As I mentioned before, I'm working on this project as a hobby; in the classic entrepreneurial mode
, I saw a need (mine, plus a few friends/family) and decided to meet it and, in the process, learn about CSS, HTML and EPUBs. But the more I tinker with it, the more convinced I am that, at least for this type of projects, EPUBs are not the proper platform. And, possibly, because of the heavy toll it takes on the hardware, Android tablets themselves are not the right platform either.
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Originally Posted by Hitch
We make eBooks commercially, and I wouldn't take on that project, not for any amount of money, simply because I don't see it working on the available devices. It's not viable. Not in the current state of the industry, tech, etc.
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As a side note here, re the commercial value of this type of project: one day, the hardware and software will catch up to the demands. Possibly more appropriate for university/academic/textbook type publishers - these things are excellent for music (or, when the hardware is really there, film) analysis, replacing today's abstract references to that snippet at the end of the second movement in Mahler's third symphony, or the mise-en-scene of the opening scene in Fellini's La Dolce Vita, or whatever. But, as I mentioned before, the show stopper for these will be the need to coordinate copyright clearances with multiple IP owners. And that's a pity, IMO.