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12 Trends in Mobile Dictionary and Reference Apps Identified
Paragon Software Group, a developer of multi-platform dictionary and reference applications for mobile devices and computers, has identified the 12 most important mobile reference applications trends for 2013 based on sales and customer feedback for 2012.
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This Week in Children's Apps: December 13, 2012
This week in apps features Crime & Puzzlement, a mystery from Lawrence Treat about solving a murder.
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Silver Dolphin Enters App Business with Mercer Mayer and Richard Scarry Characters
Baker & Taylor imprint Silver Dolphin Books plans to release six educational apps for the iOS and Android platforms in 2013, including two each based on Mercer Mayer's Little Critter and Richard Scarry's Busytown characters. It also will release two titles based on an original property, Astro B-1.
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This Week in Children's Apps
This week in children's apps features The Chalk Box Story, an app designed to teach children about colors.
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Trajectory Releases a Classics Illustrated Comics App
Trajectory, a Cambridge, Mass. e-publishing technology and distribution vendor, is releasing the Trajectory Classics App and relaunching its iconic line of Classics Illustrated digital comics as an app through the Apple app store.
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This Week in Children's Apps: November 29, 2012
This week in apps features the choose-your-own-story Pirates, an app that puts the player in control of the story.
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Amazon Opens Japanese App Store
Amazon.com, Inc. today announced the launch of the Amazon app store in Japan, giving Japanese customers access to a selection of Android apps. Customers can get the Amazon app store for their Android phones and tablets by visiting http://www.amazon.co.jp/apps.
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Macmillan's Priddy Books Debuts Early Learning Apps
Priddy Books, an imprint of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, is releasing Play and Learn with Wallace, a series of children’s early learning apps for the iPad.
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Gutenberg Technology Launches MyEbookFactory
Founded three years ago in France, Gutenberg Technology is a digital publishing company that is releasing MyEbookFactory, a new authoring tool and platform for creating interactive multimedia content.
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Nook Apps Now in U.K.
Barnes & Noble’s free Nook for Android and Nook for iPad and iPhone apps are now available for download in the U.K.
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Sourcebooks Releases Picture Book App
Sourcebooks is launching an app for the iPad allowing consumers to fully integrate a child's name and image into an interactive picture book.
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This Week in Children's Apps: November 15
This week in apps features a Smithsonian Backyard app, Red Fox at Hickory Lane, about Mother and Father Fox teaching their cubs to hunt.
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Skyreader Media Launches Self-publishing Interactive Authoring Tool
Joining a growing number of platforms offering a new generation of app authoring tools, Skyreader Media, a developer of interactive kids media, has announced a beta release of Skyreader Studio, a simple-to-use suite of tools aimed at helping publishers create interactive and multimedia digital content quickly and at low cost.
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B&N, Microsoft Release Nook for Windows 8 Reading App
Calling it the first digital product to be produced from the recent partnership between Barnes & Noble and Microsoft, B&N has released the Nook for Windows 8 app, a free e-book reader and book buying app designed to run on Windows 8 personal computers and tablets.
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Yumcha Studios: Beyond E-comics
When the digital comic Dim Sum Warriors launched as an iPad app earlier this year, married co-creators Yen Yen Woo and Colin Goh (cofounders of Yumcha Studios, an independent content developer) entered another phase of their multimedia journey.
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This Week in Children's Apps
This week in children's apps features the classic picture book Goodnight Moon.
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HC Releases 'Goodnight Moon' App
HarperCollins has partnered with children's app developer Loud Crow Interactive to create an app for the classic picture book Goodnight Moon.
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NatureShare Update Transforms Classic Audubon Book into Online Community
Vermont-based app-maker NatureShare today announced the release of a major update to its award-winning Audubon Birds: A Field Guide to North American Birds app, essentially transforming the classic birding bible into a social network for the birder community.
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Riffle Readies for Launch
When we initially wrote about Riffle this summer—“Could Riffle Be the Pinterest of Book Discovery?” (Retail Nation, June 20)—we listed it alongside a host of other sites geared to give readers better book recommendations.
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This Week in Children's Apps: October 25, 2012
This week in children's apps features Dr. Seuss's Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now!, a story about a guest who has overstayed his welcome. Also this week is Animal SnApp: Farm, a storybook from Axel Scheffler, illustrator of The Gruffalo.
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