{"id":5209,"date":"2010-07-15T10:59:52","date_gmt":"2010-07-15T15:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhgrealestateblog.com\/?p=5209"},"modified":"2024-12-30T11:25:01","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T16:25:01","slug":"our-vook-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bhgrecareer.com\/bebetterblog\/our-vook-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Vook Debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Another exciting milestone at Better Homes and Gardens<sup>\u00ae<\/sup> Real Estate\u2013 I\u2019m proud to announce the publication of our first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhgrealestate.com\/vook\/\">Vook<\/a>! What\u2019s a Vook I hear you ask? A Vook is a cutting-edge reading innovation that mixes the written word of a book with high-quality video. You can read your book as well as watch videos that add another layer of detail to the story and connect you to the author. Vook can be used as a web-based application on your computer or as a mobile app on your iPhone or iPad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Our debut Vook is called: <strong>\u201cRule Breakers: The History of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate<\/strong>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Vook, written by me and my team, takes an in-depth look at our journey creating and rebranding Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate during one of the most troubled real estate markets in decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">You can follow us from our first franchise sale (before we even had a public logo), to now being one of the fastest growing real estate companies in the United States. It\u2019s been an incredible ride\u2014that really just begun\u2014and we want to share it with you.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">While learning and testing out this media, I realized that Vook and other ebooks are completely changing the nature of literature.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">There has been much criticism coming from book publishers and bookstores who say that electronic books sold by Amazon\u2019s Kindle and Apple\u2019s iPad will destroy the publishing industry.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">I see things differently. After all, disruptive change to an industry is often the best precipitator of opportunity. As an entrepreneur, I see eBooks as an amazing opportunity to contribute to the literary world: they can be sold at incredible prices versus their paper counterparts, and they give rise to non-authors\u2019 works being published just as easily, with just as much accessibility, as best selling authors\u2019 works.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What do you think will happen to literature of the future? Are you thinking of writing your own Vook? In the meantime, take a dive into the history of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate and download our free <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bhgrealestate.com\/vook\/\">vook<\/a> today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another exciting milestone at Better Homes and Gardens\u00ae Real Estate\u2013 I\u2019m proud to announce the publication of our first Vook! What\u2019s a Vook I hear you ask? A Vook is a cutting-edge reading innovation that mixes the written word of a book with high-quality video. 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