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Packing for a trip is always a nightmare for me. Not only do I usually forget some crucial piece of personal article -- one time I went to Europe without any clean underwear! -- it's the books that really hang ...

What would EL Doctorow, author of Ragtime, The Book of Daniel, and many other great novels have done if electronic books had been invented a century ago? He wouldn't have had such a great topic for his latest novel, Homer ...

So, it was announced today that Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol will be simultaneously released as an ebook. So says Suzanne Herz at the Knopf Publishing Groupthis morning, "Now that all of our security and logistical issues surrounding the e-book ...

Not to be mean, but it does seem typical of the mainstream press to now announce that regular people seem to be liking e-readers. I mean, when I went to a dinner party in New York six months ago with ...

Have you heard the one about the declining book business, and how nobody read any more? From where I sit, in the middle of BookLand, I hear it all the time --- business is bad, publishers are buying fewer titles ...

Ok, I admit it: I've drunk the Vook Kool-Aid. But trust me: my first sip was bitter. I love books, I live in a world (and an apartment!) flooded with books. I like movies, too -- but honestly, for me ...

The news today that HarperCollins was designating one person as its digital guru brought joy to my heart. . . Sure Simon & Schuster hired the great Elie Hirschorn eighteen months ago and recently recruited long time book vet Mark ...

I was just reading a fascinating post on the great e-book blog TeleRead about the real reasons those of us involved with digital publishing should be discussing Henry Louis Gates—forget the political rumpus, in short, and recall that Gates is ...

In the traditional book business, it is generally held that Barnes and Noble -- still by far the biggest retailer in the group -- is losing out to Amazon, at least when it comes to mindshare. And people were thinking ...

At first, um, blush, the fact that today is the 50th anniversary of the ruling that allowed D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover to be published in this country has nothing to do with technology, or ebooks or vooks. But ...

For most of my twenty five plus years in the media business, I've been privileged to "shape young minds" at two of the most prestigious publishing courses in the country: the NYU Publishing Institute, and the Columbia (formerly Radcliffe) Publishing ...

As digital publishing sweeps up printed matter of all genres and formats, producers of comic books and graphic novels are making their presence known. Marvel offers a monthly subscription to its digital comics collection: thousands of online versions created from ...

I learned to read by sounding out The Lord of the Rings sentence by sentence, an experience that pretty much set my fantasy genre prejudices in stone : one dimensional villains, orc hewing, hardy little people (obviously Willow was a ...

When I first read the New York Times piece today about how Random House is wrestling with the timing of the release of its ebook version of Dan Brown's forthcoming novel, I thought: "how silly of them to worry that ...

by Sabrina Jaszi Once Vook gets into the world, the potential for even unexpected industries to take advantage of it could be vast. Just look at how digital books are helping out the classical music industry. Classical musicians have been ...

I’ve been doing some initial market testing with Facebook ads to figure out how to get people excited about Vook. I’ve run a bunch of different headlines – “See the Future of Books” “The New Way to Read” – but ...

Big news this morning. Google announces a brand new operating system based on its Chrome Browser - Google Chrome OS. Details on what it'll look like are bit sketchy, but there is no doubt. This is huge, huge move for ...

I sound a bit like a broken record these days. Speed and video. Speed and video. Only last week it was the new iPhone touting these two words. Now it's the turn of the Mozilla Foundation who today released a ...

I recently reread the Wall Street Journal article “The Digital Future of Books” by L. Gordon Crovitz. I was looking for guidelines to help me describe what a Vook is. Even though we’re building the product, it’s still tricky to ...

I don't mean to brag or nuthin' -- but the recent article by Adam Penenberg in Fast Company is all about us, all about Vook. Well, ok, he never mentions us by name, and the piece is supposed to be ...