Comments on: What Are Enhanced Ebooks? http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/ Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Mon, 21 May 2012 06:15:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: J.B. http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-2/#comment-173061 J.B. Thu, 03 May 2012 18:29:28 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-173061 I'm something of a Luddite myself -- this is exactly why I hate DVDs and end up ripping just the movie to a video file. I don't need all the extra crap. Just give me the damn title already. With VHS you could fast-forward the tape through the previews. DVDs in their native state don't allow you to skip, and with all the "deleted scenes," "bloopers," and behind the scenes documentaries about the behind the scenes documentary, they could have put another full movie, maybe two, on the same disc. I don't buy e-books, actually. Most self-pub is still crap (a la Fifty Shades of S*x Sells Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Honing My Craft), and the hell I'm going to buy a $200+ computer to read something that would cost me five to ten bucks at a bookstore -- or $0 at the library. Yeah, I know you can get e-books downloaded from the library to your device, but that's still $200 that could be put toward something else. The library book is basically $0 except in that it comes out of taxes. This "enhanced" crap or whatever new gimmick the digital market is aiming for can go stuff it in the ethernet port. Why the hell should writers have to learn programming? HTML is not art; it's math! The most I'll ever make use of anything involving computer code is poking fun at a stereotypical nerd in a fictional narrative! I’m something of a Luddite myself — this is exactly why I hate DVDs and end up ripping just the movie to a video file. I don’t need all the extra crap. Just give me the damn title already. With VHS you could fast-forward the tape through the previews. DVDs in their native state don’t allow you to skip, and with all the “deleted scenes,” “bloopers,” and behind the scenes documentaries about the behind the scenes documentary, they could have put another full movie, maybe two, on the same disc.

I don’t buy e-books, actually. Most self-pub is still crap (a la Fifty Shades of S*x Sells Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying About Honing My Craft), and the hell I’m going to buy a $200+ computer to read something that would cost me five to ten bucks at a bookstore — or $0 at the library. Yeah, I know you can get e-books downloaded from the library to your device, but that’s still $200 that could be put toward something else. The library book is basically $0 except in that it comes out of taxes.

This “enhanced” crap or whatever new gimmick the digital market is aiming for can go stuff it in the ethernet port. Why the hell should writers have to learn programming? HTML is not art; it’s math! The most I’ll ever make use of anything involving computer code is poking fun at a stereotypical nerd in a fictional narrative!

]]> By: Here’s How Social Reading Might Actually Work — paidContent http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-173056 Here’s How Social Reading Might Actually Work — paidContent Tue, 03 Apr 2012 13:31:26 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-173056 [...] are not enhancements. These are marketing materials,” Kassia Krozser of Booksquare wrote last year. Subtext gives users a chance to try better enhancements for free and lets publishers see [...] [...] are not enhancements. These are marketing materials,” Kassia Krozser of Booksquare wrote last year. Subtext gives users a chance to try better enhancements for free and lets publishers see [...]

]]> By: Confident Compass » Challenges for Enhanced Books http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-173024 Confident Compass » Challenges for Enhanced Books Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:38:20 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-173024 [...] only “enhancement” is an interview with the author, that is indeed not an enhancement, it is a marketing material. Half-hearted additions like this will not sell. The author needs to think real hard about what is [...] [...] only “enhancement” is an interview with the author, that is indeed not an enhancement, it is a marketing material. Half-hearted additions like this will not sell. The author needs to think real hard about what is [...]

]]> By: Back to school: On Books or websites http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-172963 Back to school: On Books or websites Mon, 12 Dec 2011 06:54:04 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-172963 [...] and websites – both can do video, both can include added-value content (even if it’s what Booksquare might scathingly refer to as “some marketing person’s notion of value”), both can link to [...] [...] and websites – both can do video, both can include added-value content (even if it’s what Booksquare might scathingly refer to as “some marketing person’s notion of value”), both can link to [...]

]]> By: Claire Datnow http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-172917 Claire Datnow Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:58:19 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-172917 Our books flow the story seamlessly from the printed words on the page to video clips that let the reader so and hear what the characters are seeing and hearing. How? With QR codes. No add on enhancements in our books, each video flows with the story. Please visit mediamint.net to see the beauty of what we have done! Our books flow the story seamlessly from the printed words on the page to video clips that let the reader so and hear what the characters are seeing and hearing. How? With QR codes. No add on enhancements in our books, each video flows with the story. Please visit mediamint.net to see the beauty of what we have done!

]]> By: Ebooks are so 2010…welcome to “enhanced” ebooks « Mark Fadden's Blog http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-172908 Ebooks are so 2010…welcome to “enhanced” ebooks « Mark Fadden's Blog Fri, 12 Aug 2011 02:39:09 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-172908 [...] their best to marry technology with existing ebook material to give us…wait for it… ENHANCED EBOOKS!!! These offspring of a writer’s mind and a technology expert’s talent would allow [...] [...] their best to marry technology with existing ebook material to give us…wait for it… ENHANCED EBOOKS!!! These offspring of a writer’s mind and a technology expert’s talent would allow [...]

]]> By: Enchanced ebooks « Alluringly Short http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-172826 Enchanced ebooks « Alluringly Short Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:24:25 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-172826 [...] what I think of when I think of enhancing digital readers. This article from Jaunuary 2010 at BookSquare gets it exactly right. Publishers haven’t even mastered the basics of ebooks, still think of [...] [...] what I think of when I think of enhancing digital readers. This article from Jaunuary 2010 at BookSquare gets it exactly right. Publishers haven’t even mastered the basics of ebooks, still think of [...]

]]> By: Carla Young http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-172629 Carla Young Tue, 01 Feb 2011 18:39:33 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-172629 It seems to me that the project I am currently working on would be perfect for the enhanced ebook format. It's a series of what I might call illustrated childrens songs. The first work, "Hamsters Want to be Free" is already in production. It will involve audio (the song), print (lyrics), and video of real hamsters interspersed with pictures which will pop into the video as thought balloons or full frame cartoon illustrations. I'm looking for someone to help me get the finished product into the right form for distribution. It seems to me that the project I am currently working on would be perfect for the enhanced ebook format. It’s a series of what I might call illustrated childrens songs. The first work, “Hamsters Want to be Free” is already in production. It will involve audio (the song), print (lyrics), and video of real hamsters interspersed with pictures which will pop into the video as thought balloons or full frame cartoon illustrations. I’m looking for someone to help me get the finished product into the right form for distribution.

]]> By: Publishing is for Professionals | Ditchwalk http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-172613 Publishing is for Professionals | Ditchwalk Sun, 23 Jan 2011 03:25:32 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-172613 [...] reason I wasn’t surprised to read earlier this week that e-books and e-readers are already being exploited for marketing purposes before they mature as a medium. Then again, because there really is nothing [...] [...] reason I wasn’t surprised to read earlier this week that e-books and e-readers are already being exploited for marketing purposes before they mature as a medium. Then again, because there really is nothing [...]

]]> By: My Predictions About The Predictions For 2011 « Book Templars http://booksquare.com/what-are-enhanced-ebooks/comment-page-1/#comment-172568 My Predictions About The Predictions For 2011 « Book Templars Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:56:30 +0000 http://booksquare.com/?p=3552#comment-172568 [...] yet… And yet, there is a beguiling promise that is out there in the form of the “enhanced e-reader”—the e-reader or e-book that has the capability of delivering a full palette of communication [...] [...] yet… And yet, there is a beguiling promise that is out there in the form of the “enhanced e-reader”—the e-reader or e-book that has the capability of delivering a full palette of communication [...]

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