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Just a few weeks ago, we proudly announced the arrival of our new client dashboard. Today, we’d like to tell you a little more about its new features and the benefits they can provide. A central location for communication, assets, ...

For a few months now, the popular blog Thought Catalog has been publishing a series of candid ebooks on drugs, relationships, travel, sex, high school, and everything in between. How to Tell if Somebody Loves You: A Collection of Essays ...

Vook’s Adam Schnapper shows off fixed-layout's possibilities with his gorgeously illustrated new book Many authors and publishers are still working out the pros and cons of reflowable and fixed-layout ebooks. In the past, we’ve explained the difference between the two ...

If you read our recent post about Brian Donovan’s Not A Match: My True Tales of Online Dating Disasters, you’d know that navigating the world of online dating can sometimes feel like stepping across a minefield. Fortunately, help has arrived ...

Today, Bowker announced a new partnership with Vook for its MyIndentifiers customers. You can read the whole press release here, but in short, Vook is providing Bowker customers with ebook production and distribution services, making Bowker a one-stop site for ...

Vook authors receive a special discount on Authro services. In an effort to help our clients increase customers and drive ebook sales, Vook has partnered with Authro to offer professional, customized author websites and engaging book trailers—essential marketing tools for ...

What are keywords? Although search engines are very good at sifting through millions of pages, they’re still not very good at parsing bundles of text or images to work out what they’re really about. Consequently, search engines rely on human-entered ...

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 ...

After working with Vook to build a stunning reflowable ebook, author/chef Lior Lev Sercarz creates an iPad-exclusive fixed-layout ebook to mirror his print book, line-for-line The best print cookbooks don't just tell you how to cook; they inspire you to ...

Thought Catalog's Digital Books Division has a bona fide hit on its hands: Not a Match: My True Tales of Online Dating Disasters, by Brian Donovan, is currently the top book in Amazon's Kindle Singles selection. We've been big believers ...

Valentine’s Day is coming up fast! Whether it’s stories of true love that interest you or the travails of internet dating, the Vook store has something for you this Valentine’s Day. We’ve hand-picked 16 titles on love, sex, and everything ...

A good golf book is worth its weight in nine irons. With words alone, it can be very hard to describe the subtle yet crucial changes to grip, stance, swing and myriad other factors that may be necessary if you ...

Yesterday, in “Turning Newspapers into Ebooks: Part 1,” we went through the reasons news organizations should consider creating ebooks from their archived content. Today, we're looking at a few examples and how the process of creating the ebooks works. Select ...

Embracing the latest digital strategy in news Even with the transition to digital, newspapers still offer the world the first draft of history. But with the digital revolution, many news organizations are struggling to find ways to extract the most ...

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 ...

Creating an Immersive, Award-Winning Ebook Publishing Innovation Award for nonfiction winner 11 Days in May: The Conversation That Will Change Your Life is no ordinary ebook. Written over the course of eleven days, it is a story of author JD ...

Check out all of the Vook-created ebooks featured on the iBookstore this week. We work tirelessly everyday with high-quality authors, bloggers, and publishers to create and sell great ebooks. So this week, we were delighted to see dozens of Vook-created ...

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, ...

Ever been on a bad date? You’re not alone—but we doubt you’ve suffered through as many as Brian Donovan. Donovan is a writer and comedian who has written for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Public Radio International, and performed ...

What’s the first thing you do when you’re curious about something? Most of us Google “how does nanotechnology work” and often end up on sites like Discovery Channel’s HowStuffWorks.com, which for a few years now has been helping satisfy our ...