ABC is working with the New York-based company Vook to create the publications around major news events including the capture of Osama Bin Laden and E...
GalleyCat | Maryann Yin | Posted 05.25.2011
In an eBook Summit talk, Vook CEO Brad Inman and Perseus Books Group online marketing director Peter Costanzo explained the process for turning a prin...
Patricia Benesh | Posted 05.25.2011
Dr. Rex Gibson is about to release his new book, The Game of Your Life, where readers learn how to treat their major life goals like a game. According...
Patricia Benesh | Posted 05.25.2011
Picture books have a time-honored place in childhood. Now the vook will add a new dimension.
GigaOM | Posted 05.25.2011
While paper books are still the norm, e-books now account for up to 20 percent of book sales in categories like romance and sci-fi. The shift in publi...
The New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
In the spring Hachette Book Group called its version, by David Baldacci, an "enriched" book. Penguin Group released an "amplified" version of a novel ...
USA Today | Posted 05.25.2011
When best-selling author Ken Follett wrote The Pillars of the Earth in the late 1980s, he could hardly have imagined his novel, about cathedral buildi...
Los Angeles Times | Alex Pham and David Sarno | Posted 05.25.2011
More than 550 years after Johannes Gutenberg printed 180 copies of the Bible on paper and vellum, new technologies as revolutionary as the printing pr...
Tananarive P. Due | Posted 05.25.2011
To squeeze our story down to Vook size, we had to chop a 350-page novel down to about 85 pages. And our deadline was a matter of days.
Andy Hunter | Posted 05.25.2011
We love it when a book video gets weird, and we thought it was time to celebrate our top 5.
Livescience.com | Ned Smith | Posted 05.25.2011
There's a new story-telling medium in town that could help the iPad put a nail in Kindle's coffin: The vook. A vook (rhymes with "book") is an enhanc...
Business Insider | Jay Yarrow | Posted 05.25.2011
LibreDigital takes books and coverts them into the ePub format Apple uses in its iBookstore. It can also convert books for Kindle, NOOK, Sony, and Goo...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The latest Guns N' Roses project is not an album, a video or a book: It's all three. The band has completed a multimedia edition of ...
Mark Coker | Posted 05.25.2011
The whole city seemed like a walking party to our eighteen year old sensibilities. It did not take me more than a couple of days to realize that New Orleans held for me the best of original American culture.
The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011
Anne Rice is the first big author to have a Vook, or video book, launched and hers hits the market at Vook.com today. Here's the trailer for the story...
Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011
Vook, the startup which has developed a multi-media platform for books that mixes video, pictures, and social media with traditional text, has raised ...
Regina Brooks | Posted 05.25.2011
Most of today's teens are online and that's where publishing has to go if they want to reach them. Why not take advantage of the rich storytelling opportunities that multimedia has to offer?
AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — Anne Rice is giving the video book a try. The author of "Interview With a Vampire," "The Vampire Lestat" and many other favorites ha...
Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011
"Level 26: Dark Origins" is the first of it's kind, but it's just the beginning of a whole new species of hybrid books that may change the publishing landscape.
Daisy Whitney | Posted 05.25.2011
The book industry is feverishly trying to reinvent itself with new digital versions of books, and now a handful of authors are turning to the iPhone for help.
Celeste Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
Perhaps product innovations, like books with video, are only as successful as they pertain to customer intimacy, and the future of books isn't inventing a better book but better meeting readers' needs.
The Washington Post | Monica Hesse | Posted 05.25.2011
Is a hybrid book our future? Maybe. "As discourse moves from printed pages to network screens, the dominant mode will be things that are multi-modal a...
Entertainment Weekly | Keith Staskiewicz | Posted 05.25.2011
Is a Vook: A) An endangered bird B) What you hear when Zsa Zsa Gabor curses you out C) The latest development in digital reading D) None o...
Katya Wachtel | Posted 05.25.2011
Nick Hornby talks about his latest novel, shopping for producers, and the fright that might accompany a quotidian reading of the New York Times' art blog.
Andy Plesser | Posted 08.28.2011