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videobook en · NOUN

Etymology

From video + book, probably on the model of audiobook.

Meanings

1. A book developed in video format, or a video structured similarly to a book, used chiefly in teaching and learning.
   • Stephen King has a new videobook - I can't wait to watch it!
   • He hurried along, hoping to get in position by sunrise, and climbed a high dune that made him think of a grandstand he had seen once in a videobook brought from offworld. 2003, Brian Herbert and Kevin J Anderson, Dune: The Machine Crusade http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN076534078X&id=dLbwPpBYDl8C&pg=PA331&lpg=PA331&sig=yBBf8q-7vLlnPPq6ooP-oyM1d94
   • 2001, William H. Hsu, in alt.fan.tolkien http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.tolkien/msg/3aff6ede3c67f48c?dmode=source Yes, I do expect someone else to come along and tell the story cinematically again. It's happened two or three times in our lifetimes, and the book is barely (or nearly, counting from 1954) 50 years old; why not again? But I don't expect a "videobook recording" cf. the audiobooks that have adhered verbatim or nearly so.
   • Are there any Windows XP videobooks that will teach you computer networking?
   • 2004, Bob Crispen, in hsv.politics http://groups.google.com/group/hsv.politics/msg/229979099c425f41?dmode=source My son has written two books and a videobook, and his publishers gave him an advance on every one of them.

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