Sentences with phrase «as vook»

Pronoun, founded as Vook in 2009, relaunched with a new name May 2015.

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.

Some authors who have done this recently are Scott Sigler, Gary Vaynerchuk's Crush It as a Vook and Tom Evans, The Bookwright.

You would need to choose a service that has the ability to handle illustrations and / or multimedia, such as Vook.

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.

This is a digital publishing platform that has been through many iterations — it was once known as Vook — and is now a subsidiary of Macmillan.

Not exact matches

According to a recent interview by Australian games site Vooks, Wind Waker HD will fulfill its duty as a remake and will not include additional dungeons cut from the original game nor a hard mode to amp up the game \'s difficulty.

And in keeping with the company's roots as an enhanced ebook publisher, Vook includes the ability to produce enhanced ebooks with video and audio (but remember the caveat above).

In early 2012, Vook released the rich media publishing platform it had developed as a do - it - yourself online service for publishers.

A million thanks for your Vook review... I was poised to go with Smashwords... but as I want to incorporate visuals — videos on subsequent releases.

In past years I enjoyed geeking out with Vook co-founder Matt Cavnar (who has since moved on) at writing conferences and as a source for some of my pieces on MediaShift.

Vook, which recently announced its acquisition of both Byliner and Booklr, has rebranded itself as Pronoun and has shifted focus to working directly with authors with an unheard of free model that gives 100 % of the royalties to authors.

Some of them, unfortunately, such as Author Solutions just won't take the hint and go away, while others like Vook have shifted and adapted many times over the years to keep up with a changing market.

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).

It means adding video — that's the hallmark of the «Vook» and a feature of the forthcoming Apple iPad's iBook as well.

«It is gratifying to see major industry leaders such as Waterfront Press, the latest subsidiary of highly respected Waterside Productions, choosing to partner with us,» stated Matthew Cavnar, VP of Business Development for Vook.

That's an allusion to Pronoun's launch 2 years ago as a rebirth of Vook, an early cutting - edge multimedia e-book platform whose greatest asset turned out to be its data innovations.

While working with these partners, Vook does not ignore the needs of authors who are going it alone, offering tools such as this one to enable more effective publishing.

Despite its young age in the industry, Vook has already made impressive contributions to the ebook space, working with mainstays such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Fast Company to power their digitization efforts.

«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.

At 99 cents I am tempted to give it a try, although Vooks don't seem quite as impressive after Penguin's announcement yesterday of their ebook vision for the iPad (I want that travel guide!).

Originally created as an arm of multimedia publishing platform Vook, Pronoun was purchased by Macmillan (yes, THAT Macmillan, as... [Read more...]

Vook has already released ebooks of the New York Times archived content, as well as Wall Street Journal's and Newsweek's content.

Partnering with Byliner to create as many as twelve original ebooks in the coming year, and with Vook to release curated thematic collections of archived NYT articles, the Times» efforts to reach readers with a more in - depth experience with its journalism may translate into a more loyal readership.

Matt Cavnar from Vook spoke to Good e-Reader this morning about today's launch, as well as the possibilities for this tool based on author feedback from their dashboards.

As in video - clips with text (vook)?

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-...]

As opposed to Scribd, where the only intrigue is whether it can turn copper into gold, Vook is taking a really, really big shot — If Vook succeeds it would have created something completely new.

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.

Is Vook more acceptable because it doesn't have as many complaints against it as Author Solutions?

(As an aside, Vook works in partnership with Publishers Weekly on a program that has self - published writers paying a fee for a line listing in PW publications that go to folks working in the publishing industry.

Strangely, you must now «apply» with Vook via their home page, uploading a query letter and sample pages, but as far as I know they don't turn anybody down.

Vook was founded as a video - ebook company, hence the «V» in Vook, and their strength lies there though they also do a great job of formatting and distributing plain text ebooks and Fixed Format EPUBs.

Vook acquired Byliner in 2014 as its first in - house imprint following rumours Byliner was struggling financially.