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Originally Posted by queenfrostine
But not all books are meant to be immersive experiences. Even with paper books, many are designed to have you stop and do something as you work through a book. And they are not a small minority of books. Think about the layout of your local large book seller. Fiction and narrative nonfiction take up only about half of the store. That other half is filled with books on music, health/diet/medicine, languages, travel, food, lots of how-to type stuff that are not meant to be consumed like a novel. But they're still books, and as more people move away from print to e-readers and tablets, these too will become more popular in ebook form. And they could benefit from multimedia content.
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What you say is true, but I again wonder about cost. There are many self help videos and audiobooks which often sell at several times the cost of the printed version. Would the majority of the reading public, or even a minority be prepared to pay $100 say for an enhanced self help ebook. I have bought several tapes/CD's/DVD's on different things after reading a book that suggested them, But would I have bought them sight unseen without reading the book first. Nope.
And if the author is already successful selling these products they are not going to want to take less. How much enhancement can be put into a music book or a travel book that would not cost the author a fair chunk of change to include and would the public be willing to pay the increased costs in enough numbers for the author to break even. Most authors do not make much, if any, money as it is.
Helen