Re: The Digital Future Still Is A Mystery If You Don't Publish 'Immersive Reading'

On 'immersive' I rather thought he was trying to make a division that 
was directed to his intended point (which may have got lost), rather 
than descriptive of reader experience. Immersive to me means  - for 
reading - having one's imagination captured by content. If so the use of 
pictures is irrelevant. If, as you suggest (and I think you are right), 
he meant 'all text', then that seems much easier to use - and more 
related to his actual article.

There seems to be no agreed or accepted meaning of 'ebook'. I see it 
used for Epub, for Amazon, for one or two others to the exclusion of the 
wide variety. I think it should apply to all books and book style 
presentations in digital format; that goes from the old faithful PDF, 
through all the device proprietary formats to the latest html5, taking 
in txt and others on the way.

But when it comes to some new ideas - the inclusion of video and audio 
and search and interaction - I think a new name is needed. Film/movie 
has differences from video, and from much tv output, for example. And 
there are significant bandwidth and quality differences between various 
capture systems - from phone to studio camera. You Tube is becoming like 
'Hoover', a brand that is used for raw or partly edited material.

I am far from sure there is a real demand for some of the visions of 
multi content entertainment for small screen or computer; the cost of 
them seems high and potential sales will need to match that.

Joseph Harris

On 06/01/2012 14:28, BD Lyons wrote:
> I thought he made immersive reading very clear. Anything that’s not a picture book but is an adult book. The other two categories were adult books that would contain pictures/diagrams/graphs and children’s books, and he admits that’s not an adequate breakdown. I imagine he simply meant immersive in that you don’t have to switch gears to study the pictures, graphs, and other “non text sources.”
>
> Of course, he believes all-text books are the only ones that lend themselves to ebook presentation, and I have to say I completely disagree with that assessment.
>
> It does annoy me that he insinuates that only self-publishing authors price below the agency norms, though. Rolling eyes. Yet another shortsighted one.
>
> Brenna
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> From: joseph harris
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 9:55 AM
> To: ebook community
> Subject: [ebook-community] The Digital Future Still Is A Mystery If You Don't Publish 'Immersive Reading'
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>
> [I am not quite sure what Mike Shatzkin means by 'immersive reading' as
>
> opposed to other reading, but his comments on the trends are very useful.]


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