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Originally Posted by kennyc
Of course it is, along with everyone else.
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I meant that what you want is irrelevant to where technology will progress and what artists will do with emerging technologies. I didn't mean that your opinion is worthless.
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The cost/benefit/sale ratio is too low for "publishers" to invest in.
There may be some done for the art, but as far as mainstream, don't hold your breath.
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It won't cost a lot for a publisher to add background music to a book or for a publisher that sells books with CDs on how to speak French. You can already buy plenty of books with DVD-ROMs and downloadable content. Cost is not a barrier, especially when customers will likely be willing to pay more for the extra content. Like the physical paper of a traditional book, multimedia aspects might create an inherent sense of value that people often don't see in e-books (just look at all the posts on this site that consider $10 too much to pay for an ebook).