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Literary agent Scott Waxman saw the value in ePublishing eight years before Amazon released its game-changing Kindle. Having worked for HarperCollins as an editor, Scott founded The Waxman Literary Agency (now the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency) in 1997, representing fiction ...

Now you can! Vook is proud to announce the arrival of the world’s first two-way interactive eBook. JD Messinger’s 11 Days in May introduces groundbreaking WeJIT technology, integrated into the book through the Vook platform, that allows instant dialog and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

We surveyed our users last week—and hundreds of them rushed to tell us what they thought of Vook. A big thanks to all respondents; the winner of the free Professional account is our user Tonya Gupta (congrats Tonya!). When we ...

We were both nervous and excited to see Twitter user @AudryT live Tweet her first experience with Vook on Wednesday. Without any editorializing (except for removing some unrelated Tweets), below is her trip through Vook -- the good and the ...

A funny paradox of the eBook revolution — it’s easier than ever to create digital books, but frustratingly complex to share them and difficult for readers to actually read them without the right device or application. eBooks have turned books ...

We missed a year of SXSW and the thing grew ten times in size. We hit town Sunday, March 11 to participate in NYTech Meetup’s Made in New York Event—and the few hours we spent outside of it was like ...

Everyone from the DOJ to Amazon.com is weighing in on the best way to price an eBook. It seems like a good time to bring up our eBook pricing whitepaper again; especially in light of us commenting in an MSNBC ...

We had two great pieces of news this week: We released the results of our closed beta and we announced our relationship with the Council of Literary Magazines and Presses to extend Vook to its members at a reduced rate. ...

I was sitting in an executive’s office at a major publisher last week. We couldn’t access the wireless network — in fact, there didn’t seem to be a wireless network — so I grabbed a nearby Ethernet cord and plugged ...

Our platform's a work in progress—and it always will be. The only technology that's ever 'done' is a technology that's obsolete (insert lazy joke about the printing press here). As new file types (ePub3, KF8) emerge, we'll be adapting Vook ...

Before posting more on cloud-based reading experiences, I wanted to give everyone a quick update on the Vook beta. Everyday, users are working in Vook and helping us identify issues we need to address. Our engineering queue is essentially a ...

The Guggenheim’s usually ahead of the curve (probably inspired by their geometry), so it’s no surprise to see them move into eBooks. They’ve recently launched Guggenheim.org/publications, which offers a “newly digitized selection of essays and historical material dating to the ...

I’ve been a long-time subscriber to food culture daily email Tasting Table (I think I was getting the test-sends) so I’m pleased to see their editorial team produce eBooks as expertly as they do short form emails – it’s like ...

What is it with our Nicholas Carr fixation? Authors take note -- mention us in print and you're guaranteed Vook blog coverage. Today, I want to call your attention to a piece Mr. Carr wrote for the Nieman Journalism Lab ...

Turning an unknown author into a surprise bestseller is publishing at its finest—and a classic example of old fashioned interupption marketing. The author toils in obscurity for years and emerges with a work that transfixes an audience that hadn’t previously ...