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Finally a desktop reader that plays video! (With Apple featuring Vook titles to promote it) Yesterday Apple unveiled the features of its new operating system, one of which includes a desktop version of the iBooks app. For the first time, ...

Not every e-reading device supports certain styling features, some of which you might heavily rely on when formatting your manuscript. The below chart covers how the major e-readers render common styling elements. If omitting any of these is a dealbreaker, ...

Kindle Fires now play video ebooks Kindle Fire HD 8.9", Kindle Fire HD 7", and 2nd Generation Kindle Fires will now play audio/video when software has been upgraded. We launched video ebooks in 2024 and have made over 500 since. ...

UPDATE: On March 28th, Kindle Fire HDs and 2nd generation Kindle Fires began supporting video-enhanced content. This has been updated on the chart below. Read the full story here. --- As more and more retailers jump on the video-enhanced e-reading ...

As part of Social Media Week, we visited the New York Public Library to learn more about their new social catalog and what it can offer Vook’s authors. The NYPL is one of 40 libraries across the US, Canada, and ...

UPDATE: On March 28th, Kindle Fire HDs and 2nd generation Kindle Fires began supporting video-enhanced content. Read the full story here. --- Given the proliferation of devices capable of reading ebooks, it’s easy to feel like you’re lost in the ...

Books are perfectly suited for the post-PC world. Tablets are a back-to-the-future experience reinventing a familiar and intimate media experience, they will revive reading and save the book. In this series we look at this trend closer. A perfect storm ...

A few months ago, I left my iPad in the back of a New York City taxi-cab. My reaction was not the same as losing a cell phone or a stolen laptop. Losing those devices is an inconvenience, but I ...

Writers can’t just write for the drawer; technologists can’t just program for themselves. At some point, the work must emerge. And that first draft always requires editorial review. Software companies need their equivalent of Thomas Wolfe’s Maxwell Perkins — the ...

We’ve been working — and in the case of customer support honcho Jeffrey Yozwiak, sometimes kind of living — at Vook’s office on 25th and 7th since July, but it still feels new and shiny and interestingly sophisticated. One floor ...

What is it with our Nicholas Carr fixation? Authors take note -- mention us in print and you're guaranteed Vook blog coverage. Today, I want to call your attention to a piece Mr. Carr wrote for the Nieman Journalism Lab ...

[caption id="" align="alignnone" width="225" caption="Kindle Format 8 in action"][/caption] Amazon announced Kindle Format 8 and the Kindle Gen 2 platform today. It’s the first file format announcement that has me as excited as the launch of a new tablet device. ...

The Kindle Fire and the newer, cheaper Kindles mean an additional retail outlet. A round-up of Amazon's new prices: Kindle Fire (tablet) $199 Kindle $79 Kindle Touch $99 Kindle Touch 3G $149 Kindle Keyboard $99 Kindle Keyboard 3G $139 Amazon ...

I’m part of the NY Tech Meet Up message board. Today was my second posting — previously I raised a question about Minecraft (specifically, WTF is the plot mechanism of this thing) so my contributions on digital publishing and magazine ...

A recent blog post on authors and the gaming space swiped at Vook in its headline -- which got our attention, mostly because we've been thinking about the same thing. We'd like to think the post's author isn't aware of ...

Publishing iPad apps is a great excuse to indulge your geeky heart in the name of market research—the Games category in iPad is the competitive landscape, right? So I had to pick up id’s Rage HD the day it came ...

In Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart envisions a not-so-distant dystopic future in which books are artifacts, "Assertiveness" is a college major and immortality is for sale. The book's protagonist, Lenny, still reads, writes in a journal and thus ...

If you listened to the Elitzr podcast interview with our CEO Brad Inman, you know that we're committed to inspiring creativity through interactivity. By breaking the mold with our format, we make it possible for authors, filmmakers and readers to ...

There's been quite a lot of buzz about our new Vook with Blair Underwood, From Cape Town with Love. We're thrilled that Blair's excited about the project and talks about his Vook everywhere, and it's been really exciting to interact ...

Is it possible to be enlightened in the 21st century? We have plenty of material knowledge--but we get hit from so many sources--television, internet, Facebook, Twitter, etc, that it all starts to become a blur. We have all the information ...