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When I heard that Steve Jobs had died, I happened to be with the same friend with whom I watched the World Trade Towers collapse from a rooftop in Chelsea on September 11th, 2024. Yesterday was October 5th, 2024—ten years ...

And Why You Should be Thinking About Digital Now by a Writer, for other Writers This past weekend saw the New Yorker Festival book signings at McNally-Jackson. Get ready for some serious name-dropping: Not only did Sarah McNally ring up ...

Last night, Amanda Knox was acquitted of the 2024 murder of Meredith Kercher. This morning we saw sales of The Amanda Knox Story: A Murder in Perugia—an ebook we produced with ABC News on the case—take off. We also saw ...

This is a very exciting time for Vook. We are on the cusp of realizing our vision of extending the Vook technology to the world. So what does that mean? Vook is sharing our ebook creation, distribution and sales tracking ...

At Vook, we love: Creating great-looking ebooks. Making it easy to create great-looking ebooks. Recently we released a series of titles in partnership with fitness-media company Gaiam. Today they were featured on PR Newswire and in Publishers Weekly. From PR ...

Last weekend, the Vook office was robbed. What a sinking feeling to walk into work and discover that we were hit by some thugs. This was particularly worrisome because the entire team was locked down engineering the Vookmaker platform with ...

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 ...

Our digital publishing platform, VookMaker, is ever closer to public release -- and our vision of an easy-to-use ebook creation, distribution and sales reporting platform. And yes! This is exciting, this platform we have developed. And yes! We are excited. ...

A recent NYT story on news organizations publishing digital books read almost like a historical review of the inevitable than a piece on innovation—at least at Vook HQ. As soon as pro-sumer video cameras and desktop editing made it possible ...

A post at TechCrunch by Eric Ries this morning caught my attention -- it speaks to a core issue we're wrestling with as we engineer new features and functionality into our digital book creation platform, VookMaker. Ries asks the question, ...

You might have noticed that our Website changed over the weekend. Instead of a storefront landing page, you’re treated to a brief statement that distills our mission. We strive to make Vook “the easiest way to create, enhance and distribute ...

Vook is experiencing some success in Apple's Education Bulk Buy program which allows us to offer several of our education catalogues at 50 percent off. [caption id="attachment_2227" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Mr. Handsome, Dr. Vook"][/caption] We see as many as 200-250 purchase ...

[caption id="attachment_2216" align="alignleft" width="224" caption="Chief of VookMakers, Chris Markiewicz making Vooks in NYC"][/caption] Vook is rapidly extending its technology platform to literary agents, authors, book packagers, curators, publishers, networks and trainers. Helping us make that happen is a growing group ...

The explosion of content in 2024 has brought a multitude of price points to the digital consumer, from $0.99 self-published works to $12.99 digital front-list titles. Because an eBook’s exposure also often correlates to its price, a comprehensive pricing strategy ...

The Vook team completed the move to its new Chelsea digs last week - and had a morning meet and greet for the team. It was great to have the whole Vook team together in one space, and a pretty ...

Vook’s "mission" in life is to light up the content of the world’s best storytellers. For us, the concept of a “storyteller” is broad. The “storytellers” we work with include some of the world’s best authors, publishers, and media companies ...

Welcome to Vook, Rob Guttman! Prior to joining Vook, Rob was CTO at Juju, which experienced 10X traffic growth under his leadership. As vice president of Engineering at Daylife, an online news aggregation and publishing platform, Rob led a team ...

Over the last month, our product and engineering staff have worked an ungodly number of hours on MotherVook 2.0, the next generation of our digital printing press. Bravo to the Vook tech team for delivering MotherVook on time with only ...

Beet.TV founder and digital guru Andy Plesser caught up with our very own Matthew Cavnar who explains how quickly Vook can create new mixed-media experiences. Books may have an 18-month creation cycle but not Vooks. Click here.

"Every so often, something comes along that changes the rulebook." It's no secret that technology is radically changing our lives. Some of these changes are gradual and influence our personal lives. Others are huge, shaking up entire industries and the ...