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Originally Posted by djgreedo
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.
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You do realize that kenny was expressing what he wanted to buy?
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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.
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I'm not sure I agree. The iPad is a cool device, all these slate/android/tablet things in the pipeline are cool devices that may enable more interactive book thingies, but...
The multimedia capabilities have been around for a long time, so why will interactive stuff catch on now?