February 9, 2010
KEEPING UP WITH TECHNOLOGY
Build a website, start social networking, create a book trailer - these are all sound pieces of advice that most new author's
recieve. As you will notice, they all have to do with technology. As we continue our journey through the technological age, with
e-publishing, Youtube, Kindle, IPods, IPhones, ITablets and all those other I-Devices, we as authors need to try keeping up with
it.
Internet publishing has become a major thing in the last few years, as has releasing books in an e-format. Now, I'm not saying
that this is the route to go in order to ger published, I'm just saying you need to be aware of them.
To keep you aware, I wanted to let you in on a new format that I have recently discovered. It is called a vook. Yes, a vook. I know it
sounds stupid - I thought so too until I took a look at it. A vook combines the text of a book, with all the excitement of a video.
Now, don't think of it as a movie, because it isn't. Essentially, what it does, is you will read part of a chapter of the book, and at a
logical moment, you will play a video in which the story continues.
As of this moment, there is only one place to get vooks, and that is at Vook.com. They have quite a few books on there and have
had a good deal of success with them. However, I think these are going to skyrocket in popularity in a few weeks. Apparently,
Anne Rice has a book coming out through them, a republish of an old story she wrote in the 80s, called "The Master of
Rampling Gate." It is poised to bring the vook into the mainstream.
People can watch these vooks on their computers, but the more popular option, as one might expect, has been the ability to
download them onto IPods and IPhones and other personal video devices.
I would keep an eye out for vooks, with Simon and Schuster, Haprer Collins and Women's Day partnering with Vook.com to
publish stories, and with Anne Rice becomming the first major author to be published in this format, I think this is soon going to
skyrocket in popularity.
KEEPING UP WITH TECHNOLOGY
Build a website, start social networking, create a book trailer - these are all sound pieces of advice that most new author's
recieve. As you will notice, they all have to do with technology. As we continue our journey through the technological age, with
e-publishing, Youtube, Kindle, IPods, IPhones, ITablets and all those other I-Devices, we as authors need to try keeping up with
it.
Internet publishing has become a major thing in the last few years, as has releasing books in an e-format. Now, I'm not saying
that this is the route to go in order to ger published, I'm just saying you need to be aware of them.
To keep you aware, I wanted to let you in on a new format that I have recently discovered. It is called a vook. Yes, a vook. I know it
sounds stupid - I thought so too until I took a look at it. A vook combines the text of a book, with all the excitement of a video.
Now, don't think of it as a movie, because it isn't. Essentially, what it does, is you will read part of a chapter of the book, and at a
logical moment, you will play a video in which the story continues.
As of this moment, there is only one place to get vooks, and that is at Vook.com. They have quite a few books on there and have
had a good deal of success with them. However, I think these are going to skyrocket in popularity in a few weeks. Apparently,
Anne Rice has a book coming out through them, a republish of an old story she wrote in the 80s, called "The Master of
Rampling Gate." It is poised to bring the vook into the mainstream.
People can watch these vooks on their computers, but the more popular option, as one might expect, has been the ability to
download them onto IPods and IPhones and other personal video devices.
I would keep an eye out for vooks, with Simon and Schuster, Haprer Collins and Women's Day partnering with Vook.com to
publish stories, and with Anne Rice becomming the first major author to be published in this format, I think this is soon going to
skyrocket in popularity.
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