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Originally Posted by KevinH
That is pure semantics. An e-book by almost any modern definition can include audio and video and even limited javascript for interactivity. Thus the "e-". Your definition and my definition of "e-book" differ but yours is out of date in my opinion.
But to each their own.
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Next March is the 40th anniversary of Multimedia via CD (only 650 Mbyte).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CD-ROM#History
Pretending multimedia is an ebook simply confuses people and won't meet most distribution channels for ebooks. It suggests ignorance about ebooks and multimedia. Sony did have one multimedia book player in late 1990s, but it was a failure. Phones and Tablets play multimedia. A dedicated ebook reader does not.
Almost all ebooks sold have no multimedia.
Almost all multimedia titles sold are apps (as they have been for 40 years),
though certainly epub3 can be used to author multimedia.
I know what multimedia is as I've been authoring it for 30 years as well as live audio and video recording, audio & video editing, even programming a game engine able to run a specialist script to create a multimedia title.
Insisting multimedia is an ebook because it's "authored" using epub3 is to stifle innovation and damage both the impact and marketability of ebooks and interactive multiimedia. Will you insist games are ebooks if an epub4 or epub5 adds sprites, real time 3D and other features that could be used to author real games?