Why would you want video and animation in a book?
Posted by Mauricio Longo in General on Feb 22nd, 2010 | 0 comments
Ever since Apple’s iPad was introduced last month everyone has started writing about how magazines and books should now have embedded videos and animations. The more I’ve given thought to that I keep getting to the same question: Why?
While I can understand the desire to have user controlled animation in the advertising of a car, so that the user can swivel it around and see what it looks like from all sides, I could not see why I would want anything of the sort in a book. In non-fiction titles you could add interactive charts, which could prove to be interesting and even animations for the explanations of something like physics.
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