Yesterday I ran across the Indigo Chapters website while looking for some textbooks for school and I saw that Rick Mercer was coming out with a new book. Apparently he is coming out with a book that contains the text from select number of rants from the Monday Report. It sort of reminds me of some books that are coming out that are really compilations of blog postings.
Anyways, I noticed that Indigo Chapters put up a link to video on Rick Mercer’s book page which was meant for promotional purposes. The first thought that came to my mind was that it was cumbersome and awkward to download a Quicktime file in order to view a short clip of what Rick Mercer had to say about his new upcoming book. Wouldn’t it have been better for Chapters to simply embed a YouTube clip or simply embed a flash player to make it easier for visitors or potential customers to view the short video clip?
