We’ve told you we’re going to be releasing a host of Vooks in 2010— and the process is now officially underway. Tuesday saw the launch of our Woman’s Day Cookvook and today we’re unveiling Treasure Island. We put a lot of time and love into Treasure Island and it shows on every page. With beautiful textures, over 90 gorgeous images and a fully hyperlinked text, Treasure Island is a brand new type of Vook. Our ability to integrate high quality visuals and hyperlinks to explain a variety of terms (I have to admit, I always wondered what exactly the foc’sle was) makes reading Treasure Island a rich, immersive experience.

We’ve incorporated most of N.C. Wyeth’s stunning color illustrations—pictures that will take anyone who read Treasure Island as a kid straight back to their childhood—along with historical images and classic nautical illustrations and charts. Our ability to rapidly create vooks without any laborious production process means we’re going to be able to do a TON of these types of enhancements and offer the vook to readers at an unbeatable price. Right now, there are Treasure Island apps available in the iTunes store at a variety of prices. But our app has more content, hyperlinks, and more images than any other available version—and it’s only $1.99. It’s the best way to read Treasure Island on your mobile and we’re in the midst of preparing to offer a huge variety of other classic books and stories with a wider range of enhancements. So start with Treasure Island, and get ready to enjoy the classics in a whole new way.

We’re thrilled to announce the release of the Woman’s Day Cookvook: Healthy Food for Everyday Living —our new vook that’s packed with 45 mouth watering videos, ranging from decadent but surprisingly healthy chocolate concoctions to a delicious low-fat macaroni and cheese dinner. It’s the largest number of videos we’ve published in a vook yet and we’re proud to show just how much great content we can pack into one title.

The vook features 45 recipes, tips and shopping pointers with an accompanying 45 videos: you can see exactly how to master a complicated cooking technique, how to cook a wonderful dish—such as the incredible Fudge Brownie Pudding Cake—and how to shop smart to save time and money. Furthermore, the videos are really fun. We’ve combined video appearances by experts on the Woman’s Day staff with recipes cooked by everyday people—women around the country with families, jobs, and demanding schedules who show you how to create the recipes in a way that’s fun and easy to follow. The videos are not just instructional—they’re entertaining and they make the process of cooking a meal for an entire family into something you’ll actually look forward to.

Not only is the Woman’s Day Cookvook a stellar title, it’s a powerful partnership. To create the cookvook, we partnered with Hachette Filipacchi Media and Woman’s Day to take their great recipes and expert advice and quickly and effectively turn out a value packed product. The Woman’s Day Cookvook: Healthy Food for Everyday Living demonstrates that Vook can make great, high quality content (and lots of it!) and bring it quickly to market at a value price. The Cookvook is available as a browser app or for our iPod or iPhone touch —and both platforms are easily adaptable to any location, making the vook a convenient solution for a busy kitchen. The potential for anyone looking to innovate in the cooking and recipe worlds is limitless with Vook. Whether a potential partner has already created video content or needs videos of their excellent recipe ideas, we’re here to help them enter the world of food culture in the digital age.

Vook is expanding aggressively—and that means we’re hiring! We’re looking for a Director of Marketing, a Product Manager and a Hyperlinking Assistant. Anyone who wants to work with a young, rapidly growing company in a cutting edge industry should apply. We want self starters who are looking to grow with us, people who are motivated, smart, responsive, and flexible. It’s an exciting opportunity to be on the forefront of digital publishing. We look forward to hearing from you—links to the job postings are below.

Product Manager: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/sof/1534531177.html

Director of Marketing: http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/mar/1534525792.html

Hyperlink Assistant:  http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/cpg/1541965097.html

This year, whether you want to lose weight, look great, or make money doing what you love (or all of the above. Why not?), we’ve got a vook for you. For a limited time, we’re offering a special promotion with discounted pricing on our self improvement Vooks — The 90 Second Fitness Solution, Return to Beauty and Crush It!

With these three vooks, you can cover some of the major to-dos for any great year: health, wealth, and happiness. The 90 Second Fitness Solution shows you how to get trim and stay healthy in only 90 seconds a day with easy to follow videos that illustrate core exercise techniques. In Return To Beauty author Narine Nikogosian demonstrates all natural beauty recipes that you can make in your kitchen with household ingredients. Finally, Crush It! by Gary Vaynerchuk, is a New York Times bestselling guide on how to live your dreams and make money doing what you love. It’s enhanced with fun videos of entrepreneur and social media genius Gary Vaynerchuk showing you smart tips and pointers on how to get ahead in the digital economy. And you can get all of them for a limited time, discounted price!

We’re determined to help you meet your personal goals this year and we know these great titles offer an elegant, intuitive way for you to make sure your resolutions really do get resolved.

Happy New Year,

Team Vook