How to add video or audio on ebook

[JasonPaulClaire]

Thanks Wannabe the link works fine now and thanks for your comments. I've bookmarked it and will read it later. Once again we truly see that technology offers something for everyone whatever their bag.

Many thanks for the information
Have a great day and thanks once again
Jason

[DigitalBook]

Originally Posted by hard13

finally i did it ........

Hi , im quite intrested in embedding audio into ebooks, how did you manage to do it.


Thanks

[LGN]

I start to wonder why we have ePUB specs in the first place, in everyone, even Apple and publishers just do things not defined in the standard (yet). The focus on iPAD only seems strange. Also the ePUBS with video are usually denied on iPAD?
Currently it seems the standard and the market are in a kind of flux. 'Normal' eInk readers versus iPad. It's strange that Apple doesn's support ePUB fully and on the other hand supports things that are not yet in the ePUB specifications. Sounds more like iPUB to me at this time.
Now, I understand some publications can benefit from embedded video/audio, sure, but I'm just worried that this is Apple's way to devide the eReader community into yet another standard.

[DaleDe]

It is not just Apple. ADE is also non-standard with its own extensions and omissions and Barnes and Noble has their own twist as well. There is even a copycat mpub targeted at mobile phones. It would seem that without enforcement a standard cannot stand however, we are better off I think than with a proprietary format from the beginning.

[Adjust]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

while I'm willing to admit that in certain cases (books abouts crafts and arts as example) an animated illustration might be extremely more helpful than a "still" one
(altough I doubt if the quality 'd remain on small displays) I fear a quality loss for the written content if more and more 'll be shifted towards graphical presentation. (esp. for novels)

What about University Text books?
Science, Math, Accounting, Engineering, Arts. etc etc etc...
Anatomy Text Books... (I know I wouldn't want student using their imagination in this instance )
Secondary School books...

You don't think Video would be handy in those cases.

What about magazines?

There are multitudes of reasons and uses for adding video into epub. Just Because you don't like it doesn't make it invalid.

[Freeshadow]

what you describe is educational multimedia material and no longer a BOOK
I don't want books to behave like movies, the same as I don't want movies to behave like books (teleprompter DVD?)

[Adjust]

Originally Posted by Freeshadow

what you describe is educational multimedia material and no longer a BOOK

Sorry? When is a text book not a book? If it were printed it would be called a book? Because it has video in place of an image doesn't make it any less a book.

If that's that case then all ePubs are "electronic multimedia" and not, in fact, "books" including your novels.

[Freeshadow]

if it speaks, beeps, blinks and waggles - distracting me from reading - it's no longer a book

[theducks]

Originally Posted by Adjust

Sorry? When is a text book not a book? If it were printed it would be called a book? Because it has video in place of an image doesn't make it any less a book.

If that's that case then all ePubs are "electronic multimedia" and not, in fact, "books" including your novels.

When it becomes a Multi-Media presentation.
Books have static Images (that includes 'Type') in the display media.
Clay Tablets, Cave Walls, Vellum, modern paper, even a computer display.

Static (non-changing) is the keyword. Anything else is not a book and IMHO, conforms to the other definition of 'Static': (Noise)

[Freeshadow]

a big ++ to that

[wannabee]

....and theducks and Freeshadow close the sitting room window to stifle the racket coming from those rag-tag neighbours who recently moved in. "What on earth are they doing over there making all that noise?"
The children have a book that goes "quack quack it's a duck" and "woof woof here is Fido" and the children scream with laughter after turning every page while the "tut-tut tutting" can be heard from behind the BeBook and Aztek Pez.

[Freeshadow]

That's NOT fair. I meant real books i.e. for LITERATE PEOPLE or aiming at making them literate *weeps* and no bookalike children toys.

[wannabee]

OK it was tongue in cheek and I didn't mean to offend but I think I made a valid point. What's the difference between a "bookalike" book that goes quack and an ebook that goes quack?

edit: Literacy? Arguably it is for teaching and learning which has to start somewhere.

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by wannabee

OK it was tongue in cheek and I didn't mean to offend but I think I made a valid point. What's the difference between a "bookalike" book that goes quack and an ebook that goes quack?

the bookalike book as you name it isn't one. its a toy that looks a bit like a book and makes annoying noises.

If it speaks and/or makes annoying noises it's (in best case) a dramatised reading or a radio play but not a book anymore.

I see kiddos here in germany growing up with that crap instead of real books. and then all these idiots in charge just wonder why the young generation is so painfully dumb...

[theducks]

and follow the 'party line' like sheep