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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 ...

We stopped in at the B&N on 86th tonight to watch some of our favorite publishing world people—Bob Miller (worked with us on the Crush It! Vook), Arielle Eckstut (co-founder of Little MissMatched, a store featured in our Ideavirus Vook), ...

We meet a horde of innovators inside big publishing companies. Many are frustrated with the old ways of doing business and others are discouraged by the pace of change, as they see so much opportunity around them. Their challenge is ...

The WSJ reports today that the world largest consumer book publisher Random House plans to reduce its office space at 1745 Broadway in New York City by as much as 250,000 square feet. The economy is somewhat to blame, for ...

Vook welcomes Greg Bateman to Vook. Greg will be driving Vook’s relationships with our distribution partners, including Apple, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Google and an array of retailers, etailers and device manufacturers. A Columbia Business School graduate, he spent more ...