Vook, a multimedia e-book and app developer, has launched TextVook, a series of short educational multimedia apps offering information on a variety of topics from history, psychology and the law to economics, music and even constitutional law. The TextVook series is launching with 20 apps each selling for $4.99 and the company plans to release more than 200 apps in the series over the next year.
Vook has found a market creating a wide variety of nonfiction apps/enhanced e-books that integrate text with video, audio and animated content. TextVook apps offer a half-hour of “curated, accessible content,” that include 4,000 words of text and eight animated chapter sequences. The apps target casual readers as well as high school teachers and college level instructors, offering short-form animated content that can be used to supplement conventional courseware. Each app in the series features Dr. Vook Phd, an animated guide to the subject matter, who narrates each subject survey.
Brad Inman, Vook founder and CEO, said the apps are aimed at both the “curious minded” and at the educational market, “Brush up on the Civil War during your lunch break, learn the fundamentals of psychology while waiting for a flight at the airport, or get a crash course in the history of the Middle East over coffee.”
Apps feature content on the American Civil War, World War I and II, the History of Jazz, Bankruptcy Law, Microbiology, the History of Western Civilization and more. TextVook apps will run on the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch and can be purchased through the App Store, iBookstore, Kindle Store and B&N Nook Store and libraries can purchase them through OverDrive.
