Comments on: Vidbook review: Lady Amelia’s Secret Lover

By: gnawingonfoot

gnawingonfoot — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 03:15:05 +0000

I think they should do How-To videos, but the idea of a “vidbook” doesn’t appeal to me at all. Anything I can think of that would involve having video in a book seems to me like it would be better off as an audiobook (such as poetry readings) or as video. But for humor’s sake, I would like to see Hollywood movies offered as “vidbooks” that people can download and “read”.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:57:18 +0000

Jane re HarperCollins: It’ll be interesting to see what HarperCollns is doing with vidbooks a year from now. Totally agree with you re the need to be able to read e-books on devices other than laptops! Of course, in fairness to Harper, remember that it’s also releasing the novel in other formats. Thanks. David

By: Jane

Jane — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 14:42:20 +0000

Unfortunately, I find the video ebook unwieldy. The uniform opinion of the readers on my blog is that no one wants to read on their laptop and the DNL reader is a tethered device. I also think that an audio file rather than video would have been better.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 13:11:48 +0000

Adrian D. re HarperCollins’s vidbook: Exactly why I hope they’ll toss out DNL—well, that and other reasons. Thanks for spotting the FAQ item re the Mac. I assume DNL will have a Mac version in time, but by then HarperCollins ideally will have found a standards-compliant solution. Still, as a quick-start approach, I can understand why HarperCollins did what it did. It just needs to move on. Thanks. David

By: Adrian Driscoll

Adrian Driscoll — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:39:33 +0000

From the FAQ of the ebook software company used by HC

-Does this program work for Apple MACs?

-No, we do not have a native MAC reader at this time.