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Vook just returned from three days at Digital Book World – and we’ve got some exciting news that you may have caught in a recent Publisher’s Weekly blurb.

The first item in our string of great news is that Vook’s staff is expanding, and as the new Acquisitions B2B Marketing Manager @ Vook starting today, I am very excited to inform you about all the latest news and developments at the publishing industry’s leading digital publishing house.

Following on our recent financing announcement, The Wall Street Journal asks: Are Vooks the Future of Book Publishing? in a profile today of Vook, its vision, technology platform and momentum. We certainly think so! The team at Vook strongly believes ...

Things are very sunny at Vook these days! We were featured in the New York Times Magazine, where the author, Virginia Heffernan, described our Vooks as “fantastic”. It was great to see her lend credence to Vook’s mission of lighting ...

I wanted to wish you all a successful 2024 and share some exciting news about Vook -- we're being featured in this Sunday's issue of the New York Times Magazine in an article by Virginia Heffernan. You can read “Watch ...

We'll be announcing this a little more formally soon, but I wanted to tip off any readers of the blog to a new service we're offering at Vook. It's an easy application process to get you or your authors signed ...

Apple’s iTunes Rewind 2024 lists are a great cheat sheet for gift giving—they summarize the “best of” products in various iTunes and iBookstore categories. But after reading it yesterday, we realized we won't be needing any gifts this year: Apple ...

I seem to start a lot of emails and posts with the line "we're incredibly pleased . . ." but that's the kind of problem I like having. And now I have to deal with it again because MediaBistro's eBookNewser ...

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 ...

Our children’s titles have always been a hit with young readers, but now we’ve upped the ante and produced a Vook that will wow the entire family. We produced it with the company Kindermusik and it's called “America The Musical ...

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 ...

Looking for a Lawyer Who Loves to Make Deals and Loves Books Director of Content Acquisition Are you an attorney who loves publishing, innovation and technology? Then we have a job for you. Vook is seeking to hire a lawyer ...

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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 ...

Our JFK Vook has been #1 in the Top Paid Book Apps for iPad — and today it climbed to #1 in the Top Grossing Book Apps chart as well. It’s the kind of powerhouse we knew we'd release—but we’re ...

Technology, like water and fire, moves in any direction it wants and often with no conscience. I was recently in Seattle and was overwhelmed by the scale of the six-year old downtown public library. In 1998, Seattle voters approved the ...

Vook was honored to have Matt Thurmond—a member of the TechMedia group at Harvard Business School—invite us to appear on a panel at their Cyberposium event this past Saturday at HBS. We joined Rick Richter, CEO of Ruckus Media Group, ...

This morning we tuned into NBC to watch one of the most thrilling moments in our scrappy company’s life: A star turn on the Today Show. To celebrate the release of our new title JFK: 50 Days, an interactive Vook ...

In 1957, three Iowa State professors, Joe Bohlen, George Beal and Everett Rogers studied "how farm people accept new ideas". Their research and conclusions are still widely accepted today, explaining how technology spreads from one group to another. The three ...