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Originally Posted by bookwormfjl
I guess when I read a book, I want to READ a book. I don't need video as a distraction. I think this will just make for lazy readers!
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"Lazy reader?" Seriously? Look into the research on brain activity when reading, particularly when reading without speaking what is being read. It's one of the very least brain intensive activities a regular person participates in. Period. It requires much more brain power to pay attention to a video, or even plain audio. This is why reading helps people get to sleep at night while even trivial TV is more likely to keep you awake.
Lazy readers is a redundancy.
And as for the "Vook" idea, this is plain stupid. Welcome to the internet circa 2002 S&S! Web pages with video inserts every 10 paragraphs? Oh where have I seen that before... I don't know, maybe nearly every blog/news site on the web now?
Yet another move proving how bassackwards the thinking of publishers is at this point. Just like the RIAA, trying to uselessly defend an outdated business model or way of doing things.
Now, I'm not against the idea of a standard way to pack a site which includes some video together into a single file or archive, this is something that could theoretically be done with the HTML 5 standard if they would have the guts to specify a standard required video codec. In reality though, if it was really necessary for this to be a special eBook format, it should just be ePub with video embedded where images would've been in the past.
So once again, thanks S&S for apparently never using a modern web page before.