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Originally Posted by kennyc
Well you guys may be different, but if I want to read I want to read, not watch a movie etc. And no that doesn't mean a paper book, though I do read those as well. It means I want the both the reading experience and the convenience of having a library of books in my reader.
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What you want is irrelevant. Artists will create what they feel expresses what they want to express and publishers (or the authors themselves) will publish what people want to buy. I think people will happily gobble up enhanced books.
There will still be traditional words-only books, but I think a new medium will evolve out of the new technologies, and that new medium may replace books for many people. It may even be the saviour of 'reading' for the general population (i.e. not the people who are already reading a lot but the people who currently read rarely if ever).
I would be surprised if we don't see several 'choose your own adventure' type books on the iPad in the next 12 months with multimedia enhancements, but overall roughly the same amount of text as a novella. I would actually be quite interested in that sort of a book if done well. I'd probably even buy a tablet computer to read them on.
I think novels and standard non-fiction books will largely remain text-only, but reference books could be greatly enhanced with multimedia.