Bookish enhancements vs. publishing gimcrackery

Print books are still alive, despite continuing attempts to ruin them with digital enhancements. Digital bells and whistles are appropriate for textbooks, e.g., but, if anything, they’re destructive of works of fiction. According to this story in The Bookseller, early moves to klutzify fiction with such gimmicks as hyperlinks and video have not proven a commerical success, and are unlikely to.

In other developments, someone has found a wildly imaginative way to non-digitally enhance print reference books. Call … Read more