Michelle Kerns writes in the Book Examiner about the 'answer' -- what else does one call it? -- for the post Harry Potter depression from Dutton (an imprint of Penguin) called the Digi-novel. Huh? Precisely my reaction when I first read it.
Reading is so retro, or it seems. Dutton has signed up Anthony Zuiker, the creator of CSI television, for exclusive worldwide rights to three multimedia books, the world's first Digi-novels because readers will need to read the book, view clips, and participate online in order to complete the story. The books are expected to be released in late 2009.
"The series will have a mystery-type flair and will focus on renegade government investigator Steve Dark. Special codes will be included at the end of each chapter in the book; the reader uses these codes to unlock film footage online that continues the storyline in the book. Readers will also be able to participate in a community portal that features alternative storylines, different characters, and, according to Dutton, "countless ancillary levels of story enrichment." In other words, they promise that it will be very cool.
So will it replace the traditional book? Maybe they can coexist. After all they can also be hardbound and warm and fuzzy and smell nice and can be used to furnish rooms (unlike the stupid Kindle).
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