Apple are being very smart, this is what Amazon should have done when (ideally before) they launched the Fire. Signing up textbook companies is brilliant, they are one of the most visual books that adults pick up.
This should light a fire under business and self help books. Video clips summarising each chapter, no more boring diagrams and charts. Coffee table books will be re-born, magazines will get a new lease on life (why just read a celeb interview when you can see it). The comic book industry should jump the hell on board. Perhaps one of the biggest area however will be childrens books.
Amazon needs to hit back fast, they have all these magazines and newspapers signed up on kindle but there is hardlly any images included. I subscribe to Time and Atlantic on my kindle and it really sucks. They also have the vast majority of self pub authors on there side and they need to step-up and make it easy for those authors to embrace this new mixed-media collision with traditional books.
Sure traditional authors may not want to add images or video to there novel, but perhaps a soundtrack? Imagine reading a thriller with an accompanying score?
The sky is the limit.
This should light a fire under business and self help books. Video clips summarising each chapter, no more boring diagrams and charts. Coffee table books will be re-born, magazines will get a new lease on life (why just read a celeb interview when you can see it). The comic book industry should jump the hell on board. Perhaps one of the biggest area however will be childrens books.
Amazon needs to hit back fast, they have all these magazines and newspapers signed up on kindle but there is hardlly any images included. I subscribe to Time and Atlantic on my kindle and it really sucks. They also have the vast majority of self pub authors on there side and they need to step-up and make it easy for those authors to embrace this new mixed-media collision with traditional books.
Sure traditional authors may not want to add images or video to there novel, but perhaps a soundtrack? Imagine reading a thriller with an accompanying score?
The sky is the limit.
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