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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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OverDrive Releases Nook App
Library borrowing direct from your Nook device.
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SCB Distributors Creates Catalog App
As publishers and wholesalers look for new ways to communicate the excitement behind their books, SCB Distributors is testing iPhone and iPad-compatible apps to present their lists.
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B&N To Launch Nook Video Service In the Fall; Names Overseas Chief
Later this fall, Barnes & Noble plans to launch Nook Video, a new service offering big budget movies, classic films and TV shows, available for viewing on Nook devices, TVs, tablets and smartphones. Separately, the company named Patrick Rouvillois v-p, managing director-international.
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This Week in Children's Apps: September 20, 2012
This week in children's apps features Clifford's BIG Birthday, a story about preparing a surprise party for the Big Red Dog. Also this week is Barbie: The Princess & Popstar, which tells the story of how Barbie meets another girl with whom she can swap identities.
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BenchPrep Unveils New ‘Unlimited’ Subscription Access to Interactive Courses
Educational software developer BenchPrep announced a change in its basic business plan and is switching to a subscription model that will provide unlimited access to its library of interactive courses for a flat fee of $30 a month.
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BiblioBoard: New Sales Channel for Digital Content
Created by the founders of BookSurge, the print-on-demand vendor acquired by Amazon, BiblioBoard is a new app and e-publishing platform that offers a library of public domain content bundled into subject category anthologies. The BiblioBoard app offers these BiblioLife anthologies at different prices, and by using Nuvique, a BiblioLabs digital authoring tool, allows an individual, or any large institution, to publish content and brand it through the BiblioBoard channel.
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This Week in Children's Apps: September 6, 2012
This week in children's apps features the newest Dr. Seuss app, Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose, about a moose who finds a group of animals inhabiting his horns.
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This Week in Children's Apps: August 30, 2012
This week in children's apps features the latest adventure starring Wiggens--this time he visits the San Diego Zoo.
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This Week in Children's Apps: August 16, 2012
This week in children's apps features Maximum Ride: The Ultimate Flight app, which lets fans of the series read excerpts, design a Maximum Ride book cover, and take quizzes about the books.
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Getty Publications Launches Mobile App to Highlight Museum’s Collection
The Getty launches its first mobile app, which highlights 150 of the most popular masterpieces found in the museum's collection.
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This Week in Children's Apps: August 9, 2012
This week in children's apps features The House That Went On Strike, a story of self-respect.
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This Week in Children's Apps: August 2, 2012
This week in children's apps features Alligator at Saw Grass Road, a Smithsonian app about how dangerous life is for an alligator's young.
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Kno Inc. Announces Platform Deal With Elsevier
Elsevier this week announced that it will use education software provider Kno Inc’s platform for its Pageburst imprint, a line of digital books in the nursing and health profession.
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Green Mountain Digital Rebrands as NatureShare; Announces New Funding
Vermont-based digital publisher Green Mountain Digital, a creator of nature and outdoor lifestyle mobile apps, announced today a rebranding—the company will now be known as NatureShare. The move comes as the company also announces completion of a $1.5 million convertible note fundraising round.
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TED Books App Launches
TED, the nonprofit devoted to "Ideas Worth Spreading," has launched its TED Books app for iPhone and iPad.
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This Week in Children's Apps: July 19, 2012
This week in children's apps features Where Do Balloons Go?, Jamie Lee Curtis's children's book that now comes to tablets.
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Book Retriever App Tracks Classroom and Home Libraries
St. Louis-based Classroom Library Co., a six-month old educational distributor and publisher, is already finding a niche through its Book Retriever app launched last month.
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Open Air Gets $800k in Investments, Launches for iPhone
Open Air Publishing, digital publisher of interactive how-to books for the iPad and iPhone, has closed an $800,000 seed round of financing, including investments from SV Angel, Charles River Ventures, and 500 Startups.
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This Week in Children's Apps: June 28, 2012
This week in children's apps features an augmented reality add-on app to The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore by William Joyce, which allows users to point the app at the book and watch it come to life.