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Yesterday, USA Today published the article "E-books are changing reading habits," which details results from a poll conducted by the publication and Bookish. Here's our analysis of three insightful findings: 40% of adults — including 46% of those ages 18 ...

PW explains the DOJ's case against Apple in $1.99 ebook It's a must-read for anyone who has ever published or purchased an ebook. Publishers Weekly partnered with Vook to quickly release their first original ebook on the Department of Justice's ...

Sales aren't everything. Here's a look at ebooks outside the marketplace: With self-published ebooks such as Fifty Shades of Grey and Wool gaining more attention and revenue each day, it seems like everybody wants to get a piece of the ...

5 steps to an award-winning ebook Two Publishing Innovation Award winners tell Vook how they won. Last week at Digital Book World, two Vook-created ebooks won Publishing Innovation Awards for Best Ebooks in Fiction and Nonfiction. While you can't easily duplicate ...

Lessons learned from a Publishing Innovation Award winner Last week, we announced that two Vook-created ebooks won Digital Book World's prestigious Publishing Innovation Awards for Best Ebooks in Fiction and Nonfiction. The PIAs honor “the most innovative ebooks, enhanced ebooks, ...

You’ve worked on your blog for months, maybe years, putting sweat and tears into every post. And as soon as you’ve finished one, it’s time to start on the next. As your posts fall off the front page, their popularity ...

"War and Peace is the most famous and at the same time the most daunting of Russian novels, as vast as Russia itself and as long to cross from one end to the other,” begins Richard Pevear's introduction to the ...

As one of the fastest growing Web sites in the world, online culture magazine Thought Catalog is venturing into ePublishing today and launching a digital books division. In collaboration with our VookMakers, Thought Catalog will release bi-weekly ebooks that highlight ...

Vook and the benefits of ePublishing received a lot of attention last weekend: three days after the presidential election, Newsweek partnered with Vook to release Why Romney Lost by David Frum, the first in-depth analysis of the Republican campaign by ...

"Don't tell me it was close." So begins Why Romney Lost, David Frum's concise, incisive study of Mitt Romney's dashed presidential hopes and the need for change in the Republican Party, Frum, a prominent Republican, accepts no excuses and offers ...

Science-fiction, fantasy, and thriller writer Andrew Mayne is an inspiringly successful self-published author. When he wrote his first book, he was already an established magician, but not the megabrand magician-businessman-publisher he is today with over 45 books and DVDs. He ...

Kindle Direct Publishing—Amazon's self-publishing service for their Kindle Store—has become increasingly popular among individual authors. And it's led to serious success for self-published individuals in some cases. It's also been the target of some head scratching and occasional invective (such ...

What worked for us can work for you. In addition to building eBooks for authors and media companies, Vook has published hundreds of titles on our own. Along the way, we've learned what gets an eBook visible on Amazon—the levers ...

Unlike the writing process, marketing your book requires more than inspiration and commitment (though both help!). Marketing is tricky—if you want to succeed, look to the leaders. Author and publishing pro Ariane de Bonvoisin is one and she's shared with ...

Goodbye self-publishing. Hello crowd-publishing! Kickstarter has swept the tech and fundraising worlds with its innovative crowd-sourced funding model. And it turns out that authors—especially those who grasp the advantages of self-publishing—are quickly adapting the platform to launch their next eBook ...

Last Wednesday I spoke at the LavaCon Conference on Digital Media and Content Strategies in Portland. I’d never been to Portland. It reminded me of Brooklyn with more trees. Mobile app development companies are booming in Portland, someone said. The ...

Great content? Innovative marketing? Beautiful design? Mama Tricks: Wrapping Your Head Around Motherhood author Carol Kaufmann has leveraged all of these keys to eBook success, and her sales are rocketing. Carol started with great content: essays from her column on ...

"Under the agency model, the publisher sets the price for e-books and takes 70 per cent of the sale, giving 30 per cent to the retailer." —The Financial Times Discussion of the agency model—it's benefits, it's downsides—began in early 2024 ...

The digitialization of news in the last two decades has been like an atomic bomb, wiping out a wide swath of reporters who toiled in every little town, neighborhood, war zone, sports event and city. Clubs, bars, press rooms, and ...

Last night I attended the inaugural Self-Publishers Meetup here in NYC -- and saw proof of how a community can be a major resource when self-publishing a book. Authors looking to self-publish gathered to hear two speakers; prominent editors Betty ...