What are enhanced ebooks and how to find them?

Enhanced ebooks are the ones which contain audio and video elements. You can play them right within the book, there is no need to switch applications.

Don’t worry, it doesn’t mean you get a film instead of a book. Multimedia objects are supplementary and their role is to amplify the book’s written message. A good example of such a book is Nixonland (watch a video).

Enhanced ebooks can be played on mobile devices – tablets or smartphones. Ereaders like Kindle or Nook can’t play video as their electronic ink screens refresh too slowly.

You can buy or download enhanced ebooks from application stores like AppStore for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. The books listed there are standalone applications. One of the most famous examples is The Death of Bunny Munro by Nick Cave.

You can also find enhanced ebooks in ebookstores: Kindle and iBookstore. In Kindle Store search for phrase “Kindle Edition with Audio/Video“.

Top 5 bestselling enhanced Kindle ebooks are listed below.

Decoded (Enhanced Edition)

This enhanced eBook includes:

• Over 30 minutes of never-before-seen video* interviews with Jay-Z discussing the back-story and inspiration for his songs
• Two bonus videos*: “Rap is Poetry” and “The Evolution of My Style”
• The full text of the book with illustrations and photographs

* Video may not play on all readers. Check your user manual for details.

Decoded is a book like no other: a collection of lyrics and their meanings that together tell the story of a culture, an art form, a moment in history, and one of the most provocative and successful artists of our time.

Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2010: Like its multi-hyphenate author, Jay-Z, Decoded is many things at once. At its core, Decoded is an eloquent and candid memoir detailing the story of a man who was born in a Brooklyn housing project, spent his teen years dealing drugs on the streets of Trenton, New Jersey, and grew up to be one of his generation’s most successful artists and businessmen. But Decoded is much more than a memoir: it is an intensely personal homage to hip-hop, as written by a man who so clearly adores the art form; it is a rare glimpse of the unexpectedly deep meanings behind the most recognizable rap lyrics of the last decade; and it is a truly moving collection of essays on topics ranging from Hurricane Katrina to the decline of the music industry. Unconventional type design, line drawings, and photographs visually emphasize the author’s message that rap is a form that transcends and defies easy categorization. There’s not much in the way of celebrity gossip here, but what we get, instead, is a gritty and enormously compelling look inside the cultural phenomenon of rap, from one of the men who contributed so much to its shape. –Juliet Disparte

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How to Instantly Connect with Anyone: 96 All-New Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships

Meet new people and converse with confidence • Be credible and charismatic in every social and business situation • Make friends and important contacts wherever you go • Command the respect of everyone you meet

You know who they are. They’re the people who, regardless of money, education, looks, or personality, make an impression wherever they go. They are master communicators, and everyone enjoys talking to them. How to Develop Great People Skills shows you how to be one of those lucky few.

Communication guru Leil Lowndes arms you with ninety-six all-new, cutting edge, research-based communications techniques for success in life, love, and business. You will smash the invisible glass ceiling that keeps many people down both personally and professionally. Your new weapon is a neurologically and psychologically sound concept called “Emotional Prediction,” or E.P. Leil Lowndes explains the power of EP and shows you how to harness it through deceptively simple methods to reach greater success in all of your relationships.

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Rick Steves’: Venice 2010

Following the self-guided tours in this book, you’ll explore Venice’s most important landmarks and cruise the Grand Canal for a close-up look at the elegant palaces, bridges, and churches. You’ll discover picturesque lanes, enjoy the best city views, and tour outlying islands in the lagoon. Dine at a romantic canal-side restaurant, or join the locals at a characteristic cicchetti bar and munch seafood-on-a-toothpick. As the stars shine over St. Mark’s Square, sway to the free music of café orchestras. Rick’s candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. You’ll learn how to explore Venice hassle-free and get up-to-date advice on what’s worth your time and money. • Includes 4 Venice audio tours: Frari Church, Grand Canal, St. Mark’s Basilica, and St. Mark’s Square, presented in 63 audio clips, narrated by Rick Steves

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From Cape Town With Love: A Tennyson Hardwick Novel

In From Cape Town With Love , Blair Underwood has produced 6 action packed, sizzling videos that blend with the text to tell the next chapter in the story of actor-turned-detective Tennyson Hardwick. Hardwick solved two high-profile deaths in Hollywood, but nothing has prepared him for a race to save a child’s life

Tennyson’s past in the sex game cost him his new girlfriend, and he brings her to Cape Town, South Africa—a scenic film destination and playground for the rich—to try to win her back. There Tennyson is hired as a bodyguard by superstar Sofia Maitlin when she visits an orphanage to adopt an African child. Months later, Maitlin offers Tennyson one of Hollywood’s hottest tickets—a job as a bodyguard at adopted daughter Nandi’s A-list celebrity birthday party.

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Last Words

This ebook features added multimedia content: an interview with George Carlin’s daughter Kelly about life with her dad and a tribute video with interviews with Susie Essman, Michael Ian Black, Richard Belzer, George Wendt, and Jeffrey Ross, who talk about Carlin’s incredible ability to make people laugh. Last Words is pure, unapologetic, hilarious George Carlin. With 19 appearances on the Johnny Carson show, 13 HBO specials, 5 Grammys, a critical Supreme Court battle over censorship, and countless appearances on the international comedy circuit, George Carlin saw it all and made fun of most of it. Blending his signature acerbic humor with never before told stories from his own life, this book is part comedy routine, part memoir, and all original. His journey to stardom began in the rough and tumble neighborhoods of New York in the 1950′s, where class and culture wars planted the seeds for some of his earliest material including the infamous Seven Dirty Words sketch. Carlin describes his major influences as an up and coming comic, talking about the origins of some of his most famous stand up routines. The people he encountered on his rise to stardom reads like a Who’s Who of 1970′s celebrity, from Lenny Bruce who took him under his wing to Hugh Hefner who gave him his first big shot.

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