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Originally Posted by fbrzvnrnd
I turn the perspective upside down: an ebook with video, code and audio is a true digital book. The 'simple' ebook you describe is not a digital book, it is a paper book, digitized.
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No, what you describe is an app. Available for over 15 years on smartphones and over 30 years on PCs.
An ebook isn't simply a digitized version of a paper book. It's a really electronic book, the pages reflow to suit screen size and user selected font size or face. A PDF is a digitized paper book. Either a literal scan, or a scan plus OCR or a Proof containing the fonts, images, texts, and vectors to create an exactly identical paper copy anywhere.
You can be Humpty Dumpty and try and redefine what an ebook is, as does epub3. But epub3 to do interactive, video, audio and text is just a crippled way of doing multimedia that needs a special host app, compared to an App or program framework.
When you've done the multimedia app or program once for all current platforms it's trivial to change the content. Even HTML5 + Javascript + SQL server + CSS3 is very limited compared to an app, but better than epub3 for multimedia.
Your supposed more advanced future ebook with code and video is just a limited version of what we had even nearly 30 years ago on DOS, or Mac, or Windows 3.1, so not new or advanced and needs a suitable host app. So distribution is a huge headache.