What Is A Book By Any Other Name?

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Author(s): Roxana Theodorou (Hellenic American University, Greece)
Copyright: 2016
Pages: 9
Source title: Experimental Multimedia Systems for Interactivity and Strategic Innovation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Ioannis Deliyannis (Ionian University, Greece), Petros Kostagiolas (Ionian University, Greece)and Christina Banou (Ionian University, Greece)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-8659-5.ch010

Keywords: Information Science Reference / Media & Communications / Multimedia Technology

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For quite a while now there is an ongoing and fueled debate about the future of the book, the implications of the eBook, the act of reading and reading habits and so on and so forth. An eBook is primarily a piece of software, an application. And with that said, a huge world of possibilities opens up. The question that we should try to answer then, is, what exactly is the purpose of an eBook, what should it do, how should it be designed, used or consumed. Integration of multimedia, in a meaningful and practical way, gamefication, non-linearity, design and usability are a few of the concepts that are explored in relation to the eBook and how they can add value to a medium that has been significantly underexploited.

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