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Today, Seth Godin announced that his newest Vook, Linchpin, is available as an iPad app, and on sale in the iTunes store. He also noted the challenges of promoting a book in the store when there are so many apps:
There are more than 24,000 apps listed in the iPad store, and yet the front [...]

What’s it like to lose your family, die an unjust and tragic death and then come back to life with only 24 hours to exact revenge?
Personally, we don’t know. But twelve-time New York Times bestselling author Sherrilyn Kenyon has created an entire world based on that premise–a world populated by the Dark Hunters–creatures risen from [...]

When a panel on the future publishing includes a robust discussion of HTML5 and a debate on the tenacity of InDesign, you get the hint that things are changing.
When one of the panelists says that “it’s not the publisher’s job to determine what should be published and what shouldn’t,” the writing is on the wall: [...]

Pete Cerqua’s 90 Second Fitness Solution is one of our most popular Vooks. In it, Pete teaches you easy, 90-second exercises that you can do at home to build strength and lose weight. I always enjoyed the workout in our Vook, but when Pete found out that I was visiting New York [...]

In Super Sad True Love Story, Gary Shteyngart envisions a not-so-distant dystopic future in which books are artifacts, “Assertiveness” is a college major and immortality is for sale. The book’s protagonist, Lenny, still reads, writes in a journal and thus is essentially a dinosaur. But when the financial crisis hits New York, it’s up to [...]

If you listened to the Elitzr podcast interview with our CEO Brad Inman, you know that we’re committed to inspiring creativity through interactivity. By breaking the mold with our format, we make it possible for authors, filmmakers and readers to let their imaginations run wild.
Today eBookNewser posted an announcement about another company using technology to [...]

Recently, the New York Times published an article on the growing popularity of enhanced eBooks. Today, Michael Wolf posted a podcast interview with our CEO Brad Inman on what it’s like to be a pioneer in that territory.
Wolf writes for the site Eliztr.com, which provides “analysis and conversation about the eBook revolution.” With [...]

When we launched almost a year ago, the idea of videos in e-books was practically unheard of. Now, thanks to the iPad, most publishers are ready to experiment with multimedia books, the New York Times reported today.
Julie Bosman writes:
“The new multimedia books use video that is integrated with text, and they are best read — [...]

Tom Peters has a wealth of advice on how to achieve excellence in business–in fact, he knows 163 ways to do it.
Now, we’ve taken his print book, “The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence” and broken it down into five Vooks, each devoted to one essential element of success: Strategy, Leadership, Excellence, Enterprise [...]

What do you get when you hand 22 of the world’s greatest thriller writers one plot and let them run wild? The same thing that happened when books went digital — a gripping, totally enthralling ride.
Which is why we loved turning Watchlist into a Vook — the invention that went into creating [...]