SANTA ROSA, Calif.,
Nov. 29, 2012 /PRNewswire/
-- Democrasoft, Inc. (OTC: Pinksheets: DEMO) and VOOK, today
announced that Democrasoft's WeJIT™ technology is now available
through Vook's VookMaker program. WeJITs allow an e-book reader to
communicate, from within the e-book, directly with the author, with
other existing readers, and with new individuals outside the book
who are not yet readers, but who can start participating in
book-based discussions, expanding a book's new readership and
reach.
Vook's ability to combine ebooks with the WeJIT cloud-based
discussion platform enable the author and readers to interact with
each other from inside the e-book. This non-exclusive new service
for VOOK comes in the wake of the recent joint-announcement by
Democrasoft, VOOK, and Waterside Productions, of the world's first
two-way interactive e-book, made possible by WeJIT technology. The
top selling book, 11 Days in May, by JD Messinger and published by
Waterfront Digital Press, included 32 embedded WeJIT discussions.
That announcement quickly led to requests from other authors around
the country to have the same WeJIT capabilities in their own
e-books.
Matthew Cavnar, VP of Business
Development at Vook, stated, "The combination of our ebook creation
and distribution abilities and Democrasoft's WeJIT capabilities is
something that we believe is going to help authors develop savvy
new ways to market their ideas and connect with their
audience,"
WeJITs are designed to allow VOOK authors to offer an
interactive experience for their readers and to increase both new
hardcover and e-book sales, due to the WeJIT's interactive nature
and the readers' ability to share individual book-based discussions
outside of the current e-book community. Readers can forward the
URL for any embedded WeJIT discussion to anyone, even those who
don't yet have the book and may have never heard of it. New WeJIT
participants then have the opportunity to purchase the book and
other offerings from the author or publisher.
"E-books are rapidly evolving" said Democrasoft CEO Richard Lang. "WeJITs provide multi-way
interactive author-reader-reader experiences inside of e-books, as
well as bringing in brand new readers. This enables authors to have
impact and reader engagement that is far greater than what the
traditional e-book experience currently affords."
About Vook. Founded in 2009, Vook has created an
innovative technology platform that allows anyone to create great
eBooks, add video, audio and images, publish the eBooks to their
own Webpage and to the major e-Tailers and track their sales. Vook
works with a range of content partners including NBC, Simon &
Schuster, Franklin Covey and Hay
House and most major distribution channels including Apple, Amazon,
Google and Barnes & Noble. For more information, please visit
www.Vook.com.
About Democrasoft. Democrasoft, Inc. is an innovation and
licensing company with a history of pioneering technology. It is
the creator of the Collaborize platform and Collaborize Classroom
(www.CollaborizeClassroom.com), the award-winning blended-learning
platform for grades K-20. It is also the creator of WeJIT
(http://www.mywejit.com), a new model for self-contained,
topic-based online collaboration that stretches across various
platforms and communities. Democrasoft is dedicated to facilitating
a vision of online "social networking with purpose." For more
information, please visit www.Democrasoft.com.
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For more information about WeJIT's, or to schedule an interview
with Democrasoft senior management, please contact Mark Kithcart at: mkithcart@democrasoft.com or
call 888-993-8683 x 706.
SOURCE Democrasoft, Inc.