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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 ...

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, ...

How to make the most of free ebook previews If your book doesn’t have reviews on sites like Amazon, or if you’re a first-time author, it is essential to let shoppers preview your book before purchasing. While an ebook preview ...

Vook and the benefits of ePublishing received a lot of attention last weekend: three days after the presidential election, Newsweek partnered with Vook to release Why Romney Lost by David Frum, the first in-depth analysis of the Republican campaign by ...

Science-fiction, fantasy, and thriller writer Andrew Mayne is an inspiringly successful self-published author. When he wrote his first book, he was already an established magician, but not the megabrand magician-businessman-publisher he is today with over 45 books and DVDs. He ...

Billy Balsam is the "underground Christmas classic" tale that has been passed from family to family and told each Christmas for the last 50 years. This year, thanks to the efforts of William J. Schneider and our VookMakers, the tale ...

What worked for us can work for you. In addition to building eBooks for authors and media companies, Vook has published hundreds of titles on our own. Along the way, we've learned what gets an eBook visible on Amazon—the levers ...

The race to convert text into eBooks meant the look and feel of many early titles had a "same-y" feel that wasn't reflected in their original print version. Typesetting, page lay out, paper stock, all of these elements give print ...

Unlike the writing process, marketing your book requires more than inspiration and commitment (though both help!). Marketing is tricky—if you want to succeed, look to the leaders. Author and publishing pro Ariane de Bonvoisin is one and she's shared with ...

Goodbye self-publishing. Hello crowd-publishing! Kickstarter has swept the tech and fundraising worlds with its innovative crowd-sourced funding model. And it turns out that authors—especially those who grasp the advantages of self-publishing—are quickly adapting the platform to launch their next eBook ...

Passing down recipes, a 1985 cookbook becomes a 2024 eBook. Having studied at Le Cordon Blue and La Varenne, Silvia Lehrer opened a cooking school, Cooktique, in 1976, and published her definitive cookbook, Cooking at Cooktique, in 1985. Now Silvia ...

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 ...

Don't forget: Each week through 2024 we randomly select an author published on Vook to receive $100 from us. Anyone can participate in our Sell With Vook Incentive—you simply have to log in or create a Vook account on our ...

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 ...

To make things easy for authors who want to sell on our Vook Store, we're able to accept your files (provided they're properly formatted) and put them up for sale on Vook for you. This post only covers getting your ...

Years ago, a friend of mine, who was a Franciscan nun, took road trips several times a year with three other nuns in the parish priest’s old car. They would drive from convent to convent, laughing most of way. Since ...

Last night I attended the inaugural Self-Publishers Meetup here in NYC -- and saw proof of how a community can be a major resource when self-publishing a book. Authors looking to self-publish gathered to hear two speakers; prominent editors Betty ...

One of the biggest questions we get from authors -- after "where did you come up with that name?" -- is: "What is my eBook going to look like on the different devices?" It's a hugely crucial point -- the ...

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 ...