We have heard all of this before. With cdroms, interactive television, and the World Wide Web supposedly supplanting books. Perhaps the sea change has come, but that change is too late for me. I prefer the immersive quality of hundreds of pages of linear text from a single author.
I can't possibly agree. The lack of visuals is one of the greatest selling points of books, for me. I get to do the imagining. My vision of the story is not constrained by what some director could imagine. Books with images are inherently <i>inferior</i> to books without images.