{"id":2286,"date":"2010-02-10T17:05:58","date_gmt":"2010-02-11T00:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/02\/vampire-vook\/"},"modified":"2010-02-10T17:05:58","modified_gmt":"2010-02-11T00:05:58","slug":"vampire-vook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2010\/02\/10\/vampire-vook\/","title":{"rendered":"Vampire Vook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/entertainment\/ci_14372122\" target=\"_blank\">from The Denver Post<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Vampire author Anne Rice set to release video book<\/h1>\n<p>By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer<\/p>\n<p>NEW YORK\u2014Anne Rice is giving the video book a try.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vook.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vook.com\/images\/logo_vook.png\" align=\"right\" height=\"75\" width=\"220\" hspace=\"15\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The author of &#8220;Interview With a Vampire,&#8221; &#8220;The Vampire Lestat&#8221; and many other favorites has agreed to terms with the video book company Vook on a multimedia edition of &#8220;The Master of Rampling Gate,&#8221; a vampire story published in Redbook magazine in 1984 and set in an England mansion in the 19th century.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Vook represents a very exciting combination of new technological elements, that I think is long overdo in publishing,&#8221; Rice said in a statement released Wednesday by Vook. &#8220;I&#8217;m excited that &#8216;The Master of Rampling Gate&#8217; is going to have new life in this form, and cannot wait to see the finished product. I&#8217;m not sure that my mind can conceive of all the possibilities of this new form. I&#8217;m learning. And it feels good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Opinions are still mixed among publishers and authors about video books, or vooks, with some calling them a gimmick and others saying new formats are needed for the Internet age. The product integrates text, video and social networking.<\/p>\n<p>Vook, based in Alameda, Calif., has been producing video books for Simon &amp; Schuster and the HarperCollins imprint HarperStudio and also making works out of public domain texts. Vook founder Bradley Inman says &#8220;The Sherlock Holmes Experience,&#8221; based on two stories by Conan Doyle, has been downloaded thousands of times.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/entertainment\/ci_14372122\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Denver Post<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Denver Post Vampire author Anne Rice set to release video book By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK\u2014Anne Rice is giving the video book a try. The author of &#8220;Interview With a Vampire,&#8221; &#8220;The Vampire Lestat&#8221; and many other favorites has agreed to terms with the video book company Vook on a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}