Vook is thrilled to welcome Peggy Garry as Legal Counsel and Tenesha Gleason as Senior Director of Business Development! Over the last few months Peggy Garry has been a great help to us with our legal contracts and we are overjoyed that she will now be a full-time member of the company. Prior to joining Vook Peggy served as Senior Counsel for Disney where she was part of the team that started the Hyperion book division. She has also worked at Golden Books as a VP of Legal and Read more…
We’re cosmpolitan in our newspaper consumption (we also rely heavily on Google Alerts), so we didn’t miss this item in this morning’s Globe and Mail that demonstrated our company name (as we’ve mentioned before) is fast becoming a catch-all for every sort of enhanced book. Apparently, dictionary creators and experts often choose one “Word of the Year” and the Oxford University Press has announced theirs first: “unfriend”. But other dictionary makers and advisors are still considering their selection. David Barnhart, Read more…
If you purchased the Vook version of Crush It!, we’re curious to hear what you thought about the experience. A vook is an entirely new way to read and we really want to get feedback from our readers so we can make an even better product. If you could take a few minutes to fill out the Crush It! vook survey, we’d appreciate it. As a special enticement, we’re offering one randomly chosen survey responder a $100 iTunes gift card Read more…
We’ve launched a string of great vooks over the past month, and now we’re pleased to announce our latest title: The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen. Breakaway is our first “cookvook”—a vook that lets you read inspiring recipes and watch author Eric Gower make the dishes right in front of you. Eric prepares meals such as roasted hamachi with a miso-apricot glaze, udon with herby pesto and smoked salmon salad with edamame. “The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen” is available in both of our Read more…
Pricing has been a very hot topic in the book world, and particularly with eBooks. In May, Motoko Rich had a New York Times article about readers revolting against pricing the Kindle version of David Baldacci’s latest novel at $15. She described the chilling implications a standardized $9.99 price could have on the publishing industry. And according to conventional wisdom, $9.99 is rapidly becoming the price that consumers expect, even demand. Just yesterday John Grisham appeared on the Today Show Read more…