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There’s an App Developer for That
Getting into the app space can be a daunting prospect for publishers, but a wide range of developers have sprung up to help houses steer through what is still an uncertain new frontier for book interactivity.
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This Week in Apps: January 27, 2012
This week in apps features Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, the Smartbook version with interactive quizzes and over 100 instructional videos.
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This Week in Children's Apps: January 26, 2012
This week in children's apps features Ellison the Elephant, a story about an elephant finding his own voice.
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Panarea Digital Debuts Nearpod For Schools
Panarea Digital is an e-book, app, and mobile technology developer with a focus on education. The firm has produced interactive e-books for Barnes & Noble and other companies, but Panarea Digital is now focused on Nearpod, a mobile learning platform that uses the iPad and other mobile devices as a networked classroom teaching tool.
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Ruckus Signs SeaWorld
Ruckus Media Group and SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment have announced a multi-year licensing deal to create digital storybooks.
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This Week in Apps: January 13, 2012
This week in apps features Only the Pearls, the behind-the-scenes app for Stephan Pastis's Pearls Before Swine comic strip, as well as Chasing Salander, a new story from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo world.
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This Week in Children's Apps: January 12, 2012
This week in children's apps features Dr. Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo, which takes players on a globe-trotting search for the world's strangest animals.
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Storyville: A Year of Reading Short Stories
A year after its launch, Storyville has debuted on the Kindle e-ink reader, upgraded its iOS app and website and launched The Sidney Prize, a short story prize offering a $1000 cash award and publication through the Storyville app.
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This Week in Apps: December 23, 2011
This week in apps features The Night Before Christmas set to the music of Peter, Paul and Mary.
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This Week in Children's Apps: December 22, 2011
This week in children's apps features The Night Before Christmas set to the music of Peter, Paul and Mary.
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'Chasing Fireflies' App Shakes Things Up
The app market is dominated by children's storybook apps. Chasing Fireflies: A Haiku Collection is hoping to change that.
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Zuuka Puts Nine Storybook Apps Atop 2011 Charts
Zuuka, the publisher of the iTalk entertainment apps and iStorytime, has announced that nine of its iOS storybooks topped the App Store charts in the book category in 2011.
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This Week in Apps: December 16, 2011
This week in apps features Bizzy Bear on the Farm, in which players help Bizzy with his chores.
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Three Crayola Apps Coming in January 2012
Crayola has partnered with Ruckus Media Group, the digital media company, which gives Ruckus worldwide rights to develop interactive Crayola e-books and storybook apps.
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This Week in Children's Apps: December 15, 2011
This week in children's apps features Bizzy Bear on the Farm, in which players help Bizzy with his chores.
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'Bathroom Reader' Goes Digital
Portable Press announced the release of nine e-book titles as well as the Uncle John's Bathroom Reader app for mobile devices.
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'1,000 Places to See Before You Die' Gets an App
The Wonderfactory and Workman Publishing have partnered to create an iPad app for the bestselling travel book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz.
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Trailer Park Releases Three Interactive Kids' Books
Trailer Park Publishing, the digital publishing arm of entertainment matketing agency Trailer Park, has released three interactive books that it developed with Andrews McMeel division, Accord Publishing.
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Mediabistro's App Expo: It's A Mobile Publishing Market
Digital publishing and marketing increasingly means developing applications for mobile devices, and traditional publishers need to expect competition from just about everywhere, said media analyst Rebecca Lieb in a keynote speech at Mediabistro’s Publishing App Expo in New York.
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'Scaredy Squirrel' Goes Digital
A partnership between Corus Entertainment's Kids Can Press and Open Road Integrated Media will see the publication of the first two Scaredy Squirrel books in a number of new digital formats.