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Originally Posted by dadioflex
You're quite correct. An author should write, proof, edit, design the cover and own his own printing presses as well. Investing six months to a year of your life in writing the book isn't enough, they should spend another two years working alone to code and animate all the interactive features for the e-book.
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I highly doubt the people who threw together Alice spent 2 years doing the coding. You probably have never taken any time to do any sort of development but there are wonderful tools out there that will automate all sorts of animation and code development for you. Heck, PowerPoint can do some snazzy transitions if nothing else. As for writing and proofing and publishing your own work, isn't that what web sites like SmashWords are doing already?
So, someone can spend a few months writing and editing their own book, throw it into something as simple as PowerPoint with stock clip art and snazzy transitions and sell it themselves on a web site like SmashWords. Didn't take much know-how or a large corporation to accomplish that.
Is it the best way to go about putting together an interactive work? No, probably not. But some well known bands started out in a garage. And, think of the new market opportunity for someone to develop an authoring system for writers that helps them assemble some sort of animated/interactive works. Maybe Adobe should get on this one.
Don't knock it until you've tried it, it's not as hard as it looks...