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Originally Posted by Turtle91
Something that comes to mind for me when I hear this discussion - as happens occasionally - is the Winnie the Pooh stories with the pictures, and how they get animated in the movie/tv show. I think that is an incredible way to make the book "come alive". Does that mean that it isn't a book? Obviously not. It can be read without the animation...the animation just makes it better... especially for kids - or kid-minded people like me!
Also, they released a Harry Potter book that had small animations with the images (moving subject in pictures - which, obtw, is now a thing on iPhones with 'live picture'). That also helped to enhance the "magic" and "wonder" of the VERY successful book.
You can argue all day long about whether someone thinks a book can still be called a book if it has animation/sound/video, but, in the end, its just an opinion. And you know what they say about opinions...
My thought is: If the format supports it, and your targeted reader/app supports it, and the developer/author wants it, then go ahead and put it in.
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Turtle, you know damned well that
exceedingly few eReading devices can handle animation or multimedia. With regard to the HP 'book,' there's no way of distinguishing the why there. It's HP, so it likely would have sold successfully, regardless. That same exact eBook is available on KIM (Kindle in Motion) on KDP. There's no way to tell, BTW, how the specific edition itself is selling, as it's mixed in with illustrated version reviews and sales. Ditto on Apple. So, it could be selling gangbusters--the animated version--or it could be dying on the vine. We have NO way of knowing.
If @fbrzvnrnd wants to make eBooks-cum-apps, that's his or her choice. {shrug}. Personally, I remember being all psyched for the whole "Immersedition" eBook, which was going to be the Big New Thing and it turned out to be the book version of product placement, and not readable, it was SO distracting.
For me, I'll keep books as text or text with some images. I don't WANT to hear the poet reading his poetry to me, or the author reading me his book, or some video trailer version of the book, or, or or. I also don't need illustrations to populate the book's environs or characters for me, either; I'd rather imagine my own. I do not suffer from such a paucity of imagination that I need some illustrator or animator's view and interpretation. But, that's just me.
Hitch