Amazon Introduces A Video/Audio Kindle . . . But Only On The iPad And iPhone

Amazon just introduced a audio and video to the Kindle , but the only way to experience the new Kindle multimedia books is on an iPad, iPhone, or iPod Touch. A baker's dozen of titles already come in multimedia editions , including Rick Steves' travel guides, Best of the Beatles For Acoustic Guitar , and Bird Songs: 250 North American Birds In Song . Adding music or narration to digital editions of books is fairly straightforward, and given the popularity of audio books, being able to both read and hear a book should be popular for some genres. Video can work also, but I suspect that more often than not it will be treated as something to be tacked on at the end rather than as an integral part of the original work. I guess it depends on who picks the videos: the author, or the publishing company's marketing department. Trial and error will determine whether people really want video with their books.