Note that some of these free
Vook books have audio and video that will only work on iDevices running the Kindle app.
Not exact matches
Authors,
book publishers, newspaper and magazine publishers are all making their deals with Apple, Amazon and
Vook.
Vook's Author Control
book - sales tracking software for entrepreneurial authors launches today
I was just talking to someone who said his client did an EPUB of a nice trade
book using
Vook and the fee was about $ 200.
If your
books are in Adobe InDesign files, you can output them to InDesign's EPUB format and import this file into
Vook.
When President Obama defeated Mitt Romney to win the 2012 election, ebook innovator
Vook had two
books standing at the ready.
Simon & Schuster's Atria imprint is the first to take the leap, publishing several
books — including the latest from Jude Deveraux, a smart move since romance readers are some of the most ardent ebook readers — with
Vook last week.
With the advent of the
Vook and
book apps for the iPad and iPhone, I've looked forward to seeing what an «enhanced» novel might have to offer.
Those videos, as the people at
Vook told me, can be integral to the text itself (such as the workout demos in a fitness
book) or a kind of footnote with more information (such as the scholarly incursions into their text of Sherlock Holmes stories).
Not only are they having you pay for the possibility of having your
book reviewed in their QUARTERLY supplement the focuses only on indie
books, but they are also trying to get you to pay to publish through their
VOOK line.
Vook is a great company and it does a ton in the enhanced
book space.
Even more impressively, ebook developer
Vook had two titles standing at the ready, Why Romney Lost and Why Obama Lost, both
books having been written, edited, and formatted for digital devices in advance of the election.
Polskin's list includes David Blum, editor in chief, Kindle Singles; Donna Carpenter, chairman and CEO, New Word City; Matt Cavnar, Vice President, Business Development,
Vook; Mink Choi,
book producer, Thought Catalog
Books; Maris Kreizman, editorial director, Digital Content, NOOK Media; Laura Owen, staff reporter, Gigaom; Evan Ratliff, co-founder, CEO, editor, Atavist; and John Tayman, founder and CEO, Byliner.
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Book Fair, PubSmart, The Literary Conference, The Muse and the Marketplace, UK, uPublishU, USA,
Vook
Using the tools
Vook has developed for its corporate clients, the Author Control dashboard will track an author's
book sales across a wide array of publishing platforms and produce customized reports with graphical treatments.
«Booklr's leadership role in aggregating and rendering data surrounding
books, combined with
Vook's total publishing solution provides a powerful market intelligence offer for
book authors and publishers,» said
Vook founder and CEO Brad Inman, in a press release.
Cavnar did state that
Vook is currently working on finding partners for offering the option to create print editions of these
books.
«Authors can now get the best in class analytics,
book creation and distribution that exist in the market,» said Booklr co-founder Josh Brody, who will be joining
Vook as chief operating officer as well as become part of
Vook's board of directors.
With the acquisition of BookIr, a leading analytics platform that tracks the sales of nearly four million
books to provide information to professionals in every aspect of the publishing industry,
Vook is poised to offer unheard of tools to authors who use its ebook creation and distribution service.
GoodeReader first reported on an ebook publication start - up from Digital
Book World called
Vook, who was in beta launch at the time but recently entered their full launch.
At last year's Digital
Book World conference, GoodeReader interviewed Matthew Cavnar, VP of Marketing, for a little startup ebook platform called
Vook.
With PW's exceptional editorial acumen and
Vook's technology solution, authors now have the opportunity to realize their vision effectively in digital
books.»
eBook creation platform
Vook, who was recently honored with two innovation awards at this year's Digital
Book World conference, announced today that it will be adding Diversion
Books to its growing list of companies with whom it partners to create ebook from existing or original titles.
In January, GoodeReader interviewed
Vook VP of Business Development Matt Cavner at Digital
Book World about a digital publishing model that Publisher's Weekly has called a «game changer» in the world of ebooks.
Publishers Simon & Schuster launched 4 «
vooks» last week, a combination of
book and video to create a new medium for the reading / watching experience (video on What is a
Vook here).
Are authors in any significant numbers likely to transform their own creative processes so that they begin and proceed with the intention to create
vooks rather than
books?
Just when we were thinking that Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles and other bestselling novels, might be seriously considering bringing out her next
book as a Kindle exclusive, she's thrown us a bit of a curveball with the announcement by her literary agency that she'll be releasing, through
Vook, a multimedia edition of «The Master of Rampling Gate,» a vampire story published in Redbook magazine in 1984 and set in an England mansion in the 19th century.
Just when we were thinking that Anne Rice, author of the Vampire Chronicles and other bestselling novels, might be seriously considering bringing out her next
book as a Kindle exclusive, she's thrown us a bit of a curveball with the announcement by her literary agency that she'll be releasing, through
Vook, a -LSB-...]
Like you, I might be interested in the occasional
vook on a particular topic, e.g. a fashion advice
book or a cookbook, but I doubt I would want my fiction served up as a
vook.
But
Vook has been producing video
books for Simon & Schuster and the HarperCollins imprint HarperStudio and also making works out of public domain texts.
Vook is adding video and social media to
books.
In this episode, featured guests Mark Coker of Smashwords, Jack Sallay of
Vook and O Magazine
Books Editor Sara Nelson explain the ongoing e-publishing revolution with E-Magination: What's Now & What's Next in Ebooks.
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Vook's Vice President of Business Development enthusiastically shared his business model through his interview with Digital
Book World last year.
Smashwords» Mark Coker and
Vook's Matt Cavnar are invited to Miami
Book Fair as one the panels which were long before reserved for influential publishers.
Vook is working with the NYT to launch these
books.
And then had the
books (except for
Vooks) sent to my Kindle.
A «speed dating» session allows attendees to engage in small - session meetings with vendors including PubIt, Bowker, Constellation, INScribe Digital, Ingram,
Vook, and the Copyright Clearance Center — and experts will lead parallel discussion / q & a sessions on marketing, understanding the overall business requirements and costs of professionally publishing
books, and choosing and managing outside service providers at the same time.
The client list of The Idea Logical Company has included all the top publishers in the US, many in the UK and elsewhere, leading wholesalers including Ingram, leading retailers including Barnes & Noble, and numerous suppliers of technology and other services to publishers including big systems providers (Klopotek and Publishing Technologies), specialized digital services (netGalley and
Vook), and industry services and not - for - profits (BookScan, Copyright Clearance Center, and
Book Industry Study Group.)
BookBaby and
Vook offer ebook formatting and BookBaby offers print
book formatting.
Vook and BookBaby are both ebook aggregators who not only distribute your ebooks to the online retailers, but can create your ebook for you — including Fixed Format EPUBs for complex and image - heavy
books.
Both BookBaby and
Vook offer strong marketing programs — not really do - it - for - you actual marketing and promotion of your
book but rather teaching you how to do it yourself.
While early pioneers like
Vook made it clear that a video
book was different from an electronic
book there are a lot of new entrants (Penguin) that are confusing eBooks with Apps and games and video
books.
With the acquisition of BookIr, a leading analytics platform that tracks the sales of nearly four million
books to provide information to professionals in every aspect of the publishing industry,
Vook is poised to offer unheard - of tools to authors who use its ebook creation and distribution service.
The platform, originally founded as
Vook in 2009 and relaunched in 2015 under a new name, provided digital
book publishing tools to authors for free and distributed the e-books to retailers, including Amazon, Apple and Google Play, without taking a commission.
With the ability to offer ebook production and distribution through
Vook, Bowker has become a turn - key solution for authors who want to bring their
books to market quickly.
The social hub of
Vooks, chit chat about anything you like including Life, School, Work,
Books, Politics, Love (lack of) and Stupid videos on YouTube.