Enter the "Vook"

There's always something new in e-publishing these days … and now it's the "vook." As the NY Times reports, Simon & Schuster is working "with a multimedia partner to release four 'vooks,' which intersperse videos throughout electronic text that can be read — and viewed — online or on an iPhone or iPod Touch." And the article poses the Big Question of whether the attraction of vooks to "modern readers" will lead to material that "ultimately degrades the act of reading."

What a great question...