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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle
IIRC, that's called a "Tablet PC", and the data set described is called "hypertext with multimedia". My ancient copy of MS Bookshelf did all of that. So does MS Encarta, Wikipedia, and a whole cartload of websites; some of them are even well designed.
How this relates to an ebook reader, I'm not exactly clear on. I'm resisting asking the question, "Is everyone in publishing a stupid, ignorant fool, who's been living under a rock for the last two decades?" That would be wrong of me.
Regards,
Jack Tingle
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Actually, the problem is that they haven't been reading books these last two decades, per Steve Jobs's orders. Still, if you ignore the fact that this will do nothing for book readers, it
might get TV/gaming addicts to read more... perhaps?
Anyway, I haven't the faintest what the point is, or how Video-books (the abbreviation sounds rather like a marketing term, and I prefer not to utter those things) relate to books, nor which demographic they're hoping to reach with this. I'm still waiting for them to reinvent proof-reading.