That's interesting, George. Makes it seem as if this is a return to the original purpose for Vook rather than a wind change. Last time I reported on Vook, they were heavily into their "101" line of produced content. They're certainly a nimble company!

Laura, what do you think about this announcement from the Perseus Books Group? Jeff Frank blogged about a similar announcement by Perseus over three years ago.

I think there's a lot to gain peddling an e-publishing platform to small publishers and groups, possibly more than doing actual publishing at this point. It's been a slow developing process and it will be interesting to see a leader emerge in this field. I think that in the next few years we'll see the emergence of a clearer quality-verification system in pure online publishing and a great push towards the e-release of a scale-tipping pool of titles, including backlist.