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Enhanced eBooks Could Polarize Publishing Industry

The Bookseller | Posted 05.25.2011

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Enhanced e-books could polarise the publishing industry, delegates were told at LBF's "Winners and Losers in the Digital Jungle" seminar. Karolina Sut...

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5 Wonderfully Weird Book Videos

Andy Hunter | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Hunter

We love it when a book video gets weird, and we thought it was time to celebrate our top 5.

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Will Vook Be A Kindle Killer?

Livescience.com | Ned Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Vook: The Future Of Reading?

The Washington Post | Monica Hesse | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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Video Books, or Vooks: Do We Need to Watch Books as Well as Read Them?

David Finkle | Posted 05.25.2011

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David Finkle

It would be a sin -- practically a capital crime -- to write off masterpieces because no one has the patience for the sentences Marcel Proust had the patience to craft so scrupulously.

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All Hail, or Hurl -- The Hybrid Book is Here!

Tom Alderman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Alderman

"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.

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Vook: Changing The Book?

Entertainment Weekly | Keith Staskiewicz | Posted 05.25.2011

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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...

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CDs and Ardi and Vooks, Oh My!

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Sigman

It can be exhilarating to contemplate the digital and evolutionary future. But I don't know if I could bear a world of "vookcases," "vook reports," and God forbid, a New York Review of Vooks.

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Stinkoread, and The New Complete Theory of Peak Book

Gerald Sindell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Gerald Sindell

With the development of the vook, which is basically a book with some video content, we are gathered, once again, around the grave of The Book As We Know It.

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