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Is This the Future of the Digital Book?

 
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By BRAD STONE

PLENTY of authors dream of writing the great American novel.
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Noah Berger for The New York Times

Bradley Inman is starting Vook, a platform for e-books that will combine text, video and social networking.

Bradley Inman wants to create great fiction, dramatic online video and compelling Twitter stream — and then roll them all into a multimedia hybrid that is tailored to the rapidly growing number of digital reading devices.

Mr. Inman, a successful Silicon Valley entrepreneur, calls this digital amalgam a “Vook,” (vook.tv) and the fledgling company he has created with that name just might represent a possible future for the beleaguered book industry.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/business/05stream.html?_r=1&hpw