By David Lambourne

I never intended to buy a Kindle; in fact I swore that I would never do so. I hated the idea of reading an entire book on a screen; I saw no justification for replacing an object I loved with something as bland and soulless as an ‘e-reader’.

Cinema is the most powerful medium for delivering information and entertainment, beyond any doubt, but standing in close proximity to the cinema is the visual story; and Chriscribe.com offers digital readers a unique style of visual storytelling. Best viewed on large screens of 15 inches and upwards, these visual ebooks are formatted to present a mosaic of integrated text and images, much the same as a magazine or newspaper spread.

School bus driver tells her story of developing an online publishing empire so her friends now jokingly call her the “Internet Publishing Queen…” But it wasn’t always this way. In a small mountain town of Pagosa Springs, Colorado, with plenty of hard work to do, at the same time developing an internet business, Cary Ellis found herself working long hours and having to push on when she wanted to quit.

While reading a beautiful copy of Willa Cather’s The Professor’s House (pp. 62-63), I was especially impressed by Professor Godfrey St. Peter’s comment to a student:

“I don’t myself think much of science as a phrase of human development.

Vook, the company that pioneered the integration of text and video into an innovative new mixed media experience, released its newest two-part vook series, “Watchlist,” from New York Times best-selling authors Jeffrey Deaver and International Thriller Writers, Inc. (published by Vanguard Press, a member of the Perseus Books Group).