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In celebration of our new features -- your own eBook Webpage! An HTML5 eReader! Professional Grade eBook Creation! -- we're launching a special "Sell with Vook" incentive. Once per week for the rest of 2024, we will randomly pick one ...

Yesterday, we talked about the excellent new features you can access in Vook—today I'll go over the fine points of our new pricing. We have now instituted “pay-as-you-go” pricing. You may remember our recent offer of $9.99 monthly subscription starter ...

Today we're launching important new features on Vook: Our Vook Store, personalized eBook Webpages, and the ability to sell your eBook via a browser reader and keep 85% of your royalties! And we've got new pricing: To automatically distribute to ...

Yesterday Matt shared his perspective on our NYTech MeetUp experience, but today I'm writing from the perspective of the on-stage assistant. I checked the mics, laid out the materials so the magician can work his magic and, well, turned the ...

When I moved to New York in 2024, it seemed like everybody creative in their 20s was in a band or working on a movie. It’s my own sample population, weighted by the fact I was making movies and new ...

The world of digital self-publishing is ultra-competitive. "Smashwords publishes 127,000 titles by 44,000 writers," Forbes magazine recently reported, and Amazon by some estimates has over 800,000 titles available in the Kindle Store. How do independent authors stand out in this ...

We’re back from our two day whirl-wind appearance at CEA’s Eureka Park Challenge (part of CE week), only blocks from our office in New York. It’s nice to have a tech conference and expo just down the street—and reinforces my ...

More white space makes your eBook easier to read. Today we're riffing off that theme in two areas: Margins and Line height (a.k.a. Leading). Margins You can increase the top, bottom, left, and right margins around an element by going ...

As a new resident of New York City, I am learning how to be safe when I walk the streets. In California, pedestrians reign -- that's not how it works in New York. Recently, a colleague warned me about looking ...

With GalleyCat posting the Association of American Publisher’s net sales revenue figures on Friday showing eBook sales surpassing hardcover for the first time, we have continuing evidence that readers are rapidly shifting from paper to screens. Some readers decry the ...

There's a famous adage: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. When we're creating eBooks there are some design elements we can't control ...

Computer hardware follows a predictable path: it gets lighter, simpler and more elegant. The first commercially available computer weighed one ton and the first portable computer, the Compaq Portable, weighed 28 pounds. The Apple Air weighs 2.5 lbs., is more ...

Yesterday, author Andrew Hyde wrote a blog post titled “Amazon’s markup of digital delivery to indie authors is ~129,000%.” Hyde had discovered -- the hard way -- a clause in Kindle Direct Publishing that stipulates a charge of $.15/MB for ...

EPublishing represents a vast opportunity for content holders—if you have a Website with traffic and articles and reader eyeballs, you’ve probably got what it takes to be an exceptional digital publisher. Under the purview of Michael Wolf, GigaOm realized that ...

by Joey O'Connor If you are a first-time author or small publisher and you’ve worked hard to complete your very first Vook, you may be scratching your head a bit and saying, “Cool…now what?” Unless you have an established audience ...

A colleague linked me recently to an article on The State of eBook Typography. One interesting takeaway: except for devices like the new iPad (a.k.a. iPad 3), device display technology has yet to catch up with print, sometimes making text ...

Alana Lea recently created Trees of Transformation, a rich media eBook about her journey to fight deforestation. In the process she has become an expert in developing books on Vook and we've asked her to become one of our new ...

This is the second post in an on-going, multi-part series about Vook's powerful text styling capabilities. Read Part 1, and make sure to stay tuned into our blog for weekly updates. Last week I showed you how to use quotes ...

It’s widely reported that eBooks are a growing trend. In the United States, 1 of every 4 adults own either an e-reader or a tablet. This goes beyond devices, as readership of eBooks doubled in just six months, according to ...

Our VookMakers can do the work for you. Users call Vook "super easy-to-use," but we get that not everyone's into DIY publishing. So today we're launching our VookMakers program. Our VookMakers are eBook experts who will build your eBook, send ...