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Originally Posted by kennyc
I disagree... ebooks are supposed to emulate the book reading experience not emulate the web. We already have pcs, ipads, netbooks that do that.
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But what is a book in the digital age? I think we'll start to see the edges between books, websites, magazines, multimedia experiences, etc. blur in the coming years.
There is a great Alice in Wonderland interactive book available on the iPad. My mind boggles at how good that book would be on a colour e-ink screen.
I think it's inevitable that soon we will see books with background music, animations, etc. As much as people like to read plain text, there are probably plenty of authors out there who find plain text limiting.
I'm not saying I necessarily agree that this is good, but I do think it's going to happen.