The thread about Penguin's first "digi-novel" reminded me of The Reprover, multimedia story extravaganza created by François Coulon. it's not an ebook exactly, nor a video really, more like a sort of "choose your own direction" interactive multi-media graphic novel with the occasional live-action video as well. It's hard to describe so i'll just direct you to
totonium.com where you can take a look at screen shots, video interviews, and even more. totonium describes the Reprover thusly :
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Behavioural problems? A tendency to put off everything for another day? Gildas Noblet, your registered reprover, is here to help you.
Set at the beginning of the 80s, we follow the adventures of a reprover and his patients in this fiction that combines graphic novel and video.
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The Reprover is available in french and english for 12€ (to download). there is also a similar interactive story called "Pause" which was more or less the prototype of The Reprover available for free, but only in french.
even if you don't buy The Reprover, take a look around the site, the video interviews and explanations alone are worth the trip.
i can easily imagine that one day in the near future we'll have liseuses capable of handling such "e-books" ; what do you think ? interested ?