Vook releases Treasure Island

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 [...]

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WE MEANT — 20,000 Sherlock Downloads!

We are thrilled to announce a tremendously successful week of downloads for our Sherlock Holmes Experience vook. With great support from Apple, picking our app as the #1 “Staff Favorite” for the holiday week, Sherlock received over 17,000 20,000 downloads in just a matter of a few days (Ed: we just got some NEW sales [...]

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Vook releases The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen

We’ve launched a string of great vooks over the past month, and now we’re pleased to announce our latest title: The Breakaway Japanese Kitchen. Breakaway is our first “cookvook”—a vook that lets you read inspiring recipes and watch author Eric Gower make the dishes right in front of you. Eric prepares meals such as roasted [...]

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A new product, a new word

We’re pleased with the reaction to our first vooks—and, as language lovers, we’re intrigued by how the word vook itself has entered the popular lexicon. In April, the word Vook appeared in a New York Times article as a proper noun referring to the company, “Vook,” but the article also employed capital-V Vook to designate [...]

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Vook – The Web Browser

Earlier today we officially launched four titles: Promises, a romance by Jude Deveraux, The 90 Second Fitness Solution, a fitness book by Pete Cerqua, Embassy, a thriller by Richard Doetsch and Return to Beauty, a health book by Narine Nikogosian. All are designed to manifest Vook’s mission: to blend a book with videos into one [...]

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Bringing you Vook: Read it, Watch it.

The Vook Team is pleased to announce today the launch of our first vooks, all published in partnership with Atria, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. These four titles—Promises, a romance by Jude Deveraux, The 90 Second Fitness Solution, a fitness book by Pete Cerqua, Embassy, a thriller by Richard Doetsch and Return to [...]

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#Vook Wish List Week 1

We had a great first week of our #Vook Wish List Twitter contest. Many tweeps submitted ideas and it definitely got us all thinking: which books would make awesome vooks? With all the ideas we got, one stood out for us. @RobertaMurphy tweeted:
@vooktv With The Last Lecture there’s the voice, the face, the words…the [...]

Twitter Challenge – Win an iPod Touch

[This post was updated on 8/4/09 to better clarify the rules and decision process of the challenge]
We’re having such a great dialogue on Twitter that we’re going to launch a contest to find out what you think about the future of books.
Tell us what book you’d like to see become a vook — a digital [...]

Maria Thurrell joins the Vook team

Hi! I’m Maria, the new social marketing manager at Vook! I’m super excited to join the team
For the past year, I’ve run a social media pr and marketing agency in Boston called Media Awaken. I worked with nonprofits and startups to help them dive into the world of social media and use new [...]

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The future sound of books

by Sabrina Jaszi
Once Vook gets into the world, the potential for even unexpected industries to take advantage of it could be vast. Just look at how digital books are helping out the classical music industry. Classical musicians have been mourning the loss of establishments selling sheet music for a while. Stores like this once gave [...]

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