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I wasn't going to upgrade. I swear. But my gadget lust got the better of me and I caved. So I spent the weekend with a new toy; my brand new iPhone 3G S. This is now the third generation ...

Here at vook we always have one eye on what's coming down the pike in terms of hardware. We love our iPhones and Kindles but are anxiously anticipating the day that technology catches up with our dream of integrated video ...

We were pleased to see Vook’s editorial consultant Sara Nelson quoted in a USA Today article on young adult readers and book culture yesterday – and we couldn’t agree more with her point: kids are reading, they’re just not reading ...

I've not been the worst Luddite, it's true. I started reading on a Kindle a week or two after the first version was launched, and still use it and a Sony reader for I'd say about 1/2 my reading. (More, ...

Summer at Vook is about work, very little play. Our team plans to launch five Vook titles in September and several more in October and many more in November and December of this year. The team is moving on lots ...

Comics have pretty much lost their stigma as being just for kids and nerdy adults - even cute girls seem to have realized the geeks are onto something - and the Internet has been a huge player in making graphic ...

Who could have predicted that one of the largest public endorsement of digital books would come from none other than the Terminator himself? Yesterday, Ahhhrni The Governator Schwarzenegger officially opened the door to e-books on a state educational level. Sure, ...

If you are as big a geek as me, you spent yesterday glued to the Engadget or Gizmodo live blog of Apple's WWDC keynote speech. As expected, we got a look at the new iPhone (3G s) and some of ...

Recruiting a new team from scratch is one part of the start-up puzzle. A time lapse video would capture the manic experimentation that goes into this process; no recipe exists when the company you are building is in an entirely ...

We're serious book lovers at Vook - one of our producers just read 2666 between takes on a long shoot - but we also love, obsessively follow and make movies and online video. That expertise will set Vook apart from ...

Vook wasn't the only e-book outfit at BEA, but we were one of the most visible, hanging around the floor and visiting lots of publishing folk to demonstrate our product. I'm a veteran of this book fair, but I have ...

We certainly saw that last week at BEA - with newer, cheaper devices from Cooler and BEbook starting to steal a little of the thunder from the Kindle and Sony readers. Now, this week, a new report from Forrester that ...

The Vook team has landed in New York and we're gearing up for a big week at the Book Expo America (BEA). BEA is the publishing industry's largest annual get together and this year, the buzz over e-books and digital ...