eBooks with eXtras: Do We Need 'Em?

There’s lots of talk this week about eBooks with enhancements, books, like David Baldacci’s forthcoming thriller, that come with extra material: deleted scenes, video, music, other stuff. it’s a lot of the same language that gets used to describe DVDs packed with a second disc of bonus material. They’re built like apps and contain the full text of the book as well as the bonus material. They cost more, and agents are fighting to keep “enhanced” rights separate from regular eBook rights.

On the iPad and the slew of other tablets that will follow it, it’s likely we’re going to see eBooks with all kinds of capacities that print books and regular eBooks don’t have.

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