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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
There's no reason to do that? Audio books are that. They don't stop being novels as audiobooks and there's no reason you couldn't release an original novel as an audiobook first. A novel is just long form fictional narrative prose.
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One problem with your statement, is that a book in the sense we are using it, by definition, is a written or printed work bound on one edge. And yes, that excludes ebooks.
As for releasing an audiobook first? Sorry but most authors/publishers are iffy about simultaneous releases much less releasing the audiobook prior to the pbook or ebook editions. The cost and time involved in creating the audiobook while leaving the pbook and ebook editions hanging in limbo when they could be out generating sales and hype is unlikely to fly.
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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
The cover doesn't have to be embedded as audio just as the cover doesn't have to be embedded as text in a paper book or eBook. It can be an image on a cassette box or a JPEG in an MP3 album.
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ebooks and pbooks natively support images so embedding would not be necessary though I have seen several ebooks that use long descriptions of images for use by TTS systems.
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Originally Posted by salamanderjuice
The cover is part of the package, some people do enjoy looking at them. Others might not care. Kobo has catered to people who like seeing the cover from the beginning. Color adds another dimension.
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Whereas I seldom look at book covers (I seem to remember having this discussion several times in the past where my statement that I am seldom influenced in a book purchase by the cover was not greeted well). One friend recently purchased a pbook with a dust jacket, an image on the boards and edge printed images. Oddly, they have never opened the book since they prefer the ebook edition but it does look pretty on their bookshelf. Tsundoku lives.
My Kobo sleep/power off screens have been images rather than the default book cover ever since Kobo introduced that capability.
On somewhat of a tangent, for me, the content of a book starts with the epigraph/prologue/whatever which starts the story and ends with the last chapter/epilogue/whatever that ends the story. I do not consider the blurbs for other books, author biographies, copyright notices, etc. as being content.
As for colour? Very few of my books have images or effects that would benefit from colour. OTOH, I know quite a few people for whom colour makes the ebook experience enjoyable. Much of their reading consists of comics, kids books and other publications which make heavy use of colour images.