{"id":3349,"date":"2009-10-03T07:29:29","date_gmt":"2009-10-03T12:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2009-10-03T07:29:58","modified_gmt":"2009-10-03T12:29:58","slug":"simon-shuster-climb-on-board-the-vook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"Simon &#038; Shuster &#038; the VOOK."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about the <strong><a title=\"Vook...what?\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1503\" target=\"_self\">Vook<\/a><\/strong> before. Well, it&#8217;s back.\u00c2\u00a0Simon &amp; Schuster has started an online video book (VOOK) service available in formats for iPhone and Web browsers.<\/p>\n<p>Okay, to recap from an <strong><a title=\"The Vook Explained\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/ec-news\/article.php\/3841886\" target=\"_self\">article<\/a><\/strong> at <strong><a title=\"Internetnews explains VOOK.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.internetnews.com\/ec-news\/article.php\/3841886\" target=\"_self\">Internetnews.com<\/a><\/strong>,\u00c2\u00a0vooks &#8220;blend text and video into &#8216;a seamless reading experience to advance the plot and enhance the sense of place.'&#8221; You&#8217;ll have to read the rest to understand this thing. I tried to &#8216;get&#8217; it until I read the following\u00c2\u00a0statement by Ellie Hirschhorn, vice president and chief digital officer at Simon &amp; Schuster: &#8220;Vook is a game-changing model for reading in the age of digital multimedia, the first viable combination of text and video that is user-friendly and that addresses today&#8217;s multitasking audience and how it absorbs information and entertainment.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I kind of get it, but in all honesty it sounds very much like a\u00c2\u00a0movie or a video, but with parts that haven&#8217;t been filmed yet. What&#8217;s the matter with good old-fashioned eBooks, <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We talked about the Vook before. Well, it&#8217;s back.\u00c2\u00a0Simon &amp; Schuster has started an online video book (VOOK) service available in formats for iPhone and Web browsers. Okay, to recap from an article at Internetnews.com,\u00c2\u00a0vooks &#8220;blend text and video into &#8216;a seamless reading experience to advance the plot and enhance the sense of place.&#8217;&#8221; You&#8217;ll &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=3349\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3362,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions\/3362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}