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Vook, the multimedia company that creates e-books which meld print and video, has unveiled a new platform that will allow publishers to independently create their own multimedia versions of their books.

Publishers could be losing out on as much as $3 billion to online book piracy

One resolution for this year is to be sure Confluence Book Services participates actively in sustainable printing and publishing programs and services. I don’t want to be on the wrong side of a leonopteryx.

What is possible for e-readers may not be what is wanted or needed. We have to finesse an understanding of needs for each audience and diverse genres.

There are serious contenders today staking out turf in the multimedia book battlefield. All we need now is digital scratch and sniff. Here are some reviews of the Vook.

Who are the best content coyotes, those exploring and adapting to the evolving online environment, finding feasts where others get hit by trucks or die of thirst?

Authors need to think about this evolutionary shift in the publishing landscape, where the Internet is the first medium in history that has native support for groups and conversation at the same time.

In the religion book category, we are between mega-bestseller seasons, such as those that powered the 1990s. The next wave will rise from word-of-mouth (of Tweet?) up through the social media sea.

Publishers used to just focus on releasing good books. Now they have to be dot-com wizards and social media gurus, too.

Like publishing and writing, reading is becoming more collaborative and communal. After all, how can books be left out of “social media?’