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.
While also available in print (which ironically demonstrates the need for digital textbooks, since the print edition of the guide to affording college costs more than triple the price of the ebook), the U.S. News Guide to Paying for College was created and distributed by ebook
platform Vook and is formatted for a wide variety of device and PC consumption.
Originally created as an arm of multimedia publishing
platform Vook, Pronoun was purchased by Macmillan (yes, THAT Macmillan, as... [Read more...]
Not exact matches
In early 2012,
Vook released the rich media publishing
platform it had developed as a do - it - yourself online service for publishers.
Vook's
platform offers a good taste of things to come.
The second option is designed to get you to publish through PW's
Vook platform.
Matt Cavner of
Vook, developers of a cloud - based ebook distribution
platform, spoke with GoodEReader about what sets their product apart from the multitude of options for authors to create, format, and distribute their digital content.
While the
platform itself is engaging and eye - catching, it is the real - time viewing of the file during conversion to a both ePub and MOBI formats from existing Word documents that could potentially end up setting
Vook apart from other conversion capabilities.
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.
In May 2015 Pronoun arose from
Vook's ashes, after the latter's acquisition of «Booklr (a data analysis service for e-book sales founded by Brody), Byliner (a literary e-book publisher), and Coliloquy (a choose - your - own - adventure
platform using enhanced e-books and apps).»
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.
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.
Vook touts their video - embedded ebooks, while other
platforms have other specialties.
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.
At last year's Digital Book World conference, GoodeReader interviewed Matthew Cavnar, VP of Marketing, for a little startup ebook
platform called
Vook.
GoodeReader sat down with Matthew Cavnar from
Vook, the the digital publishing
platform that helped two different authors earn Publishing Innovation Awards, one for a work of fiction and one for non-fiction.
A release from ebook developer
Vook today announced that Amazon's Kindle Fire tablet will now accommodate embedded videos in ebooks, which is long - awaited news for authors who have until now not been able to promote and sell their titles on one of the largest retail
platforms for ebooks.
Unlike those other
platforms, though,
Vook went... [Read more...]
«The idea was to create a true transmedia novel which layered immersive fiction across multiple
platforms,» Raydel explained recently in a
Vook blog post.
Vook's
platform then makes it easy to distribute the finished e-book to Amazon, iBooks and BN.com.
Although
Vook is a good pal of major publishers, the idea to eliminate the frustration over producing the eBook for different
platforms and retaining the signature styling sheet is a thoughtful initiative.
Vook is in the process of transforming itself from a maker of enhance eBooks with video embedded in them to an ePUB creation
platform.
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.
Acquired by Macmillan last year, Pronoun was a no - cost - to - authors self - publishing
platform developed from the multimedia company
Vook.
Macmillan's Pronoun Self - Publishing
Platform Signs Off — If you've never heard of Pronoun, you may know the company by its former name,
Vook.
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.
Booklr, a data analysis company, and Byliner, an online literary boutique, will help
Vook in its transition to a free self - publishing
platform that gives authors a 100 % royalty rate.
About
Vook Founded in 2009,
Vook has created an innovative technology
platform that helps content holders to create great ebooks, add video and images, publish the ebooks to their own Web pages and to the major e-retailers, and track their sales.