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This Week in Apps: September 30, 2011
The week in apps features The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, an app packed with seven lost Dr. Seuss stories. Richard Scarry's Busytown hits the App Store with a fully interactive location and personalized experience for players. And two classics – Romeo & Juliet and Pride & Prejudice – get enhanced digital books.
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This Week in Children's Apps: September 29, 2011
The week in children's apps features The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories, an app packed with seven lost Dr. Seuss stories. Richard Scarry's Busytown hits the App Store with a fully interactive location and personalized experience for players. And two classics – Romeo & Juliet and Pride & Prejudice – get enhanced digital books.
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This Week in Apps: September 23, 2011
This week in apps features the anticipated release of Journey to the Exoplanets, which takes users on an unprecedented look at the mysterious planets outside our Solar System.
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This Week in Children's Apps: September 22, 2011
This week in children's apps features two Mercer Mayer storybook apps and My Little Pony from Ruckus Media.
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This Week in Children's Apps: September 15, 2011
New to the children's apps market Cinderella, the classic fairy tale now brought to the App Store with full interactive features.
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This Week in Apps: September 9, 2011
This week in apps features the latest in the Smithsonian Prehistoric Pals series, Triceratops Gets Lost, which is about a young dinosaur who gets lost.
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This Week in Apps: September 2, 2011
This week in apps features the #1 Book App Harold and the Purple Crayon, a story of imagination and creativity that shows players that every child is an artist. Also this week, Brave Rooney tells the story of an ordinary boy in a school of superheroes and the lessons he learns in bravery.
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This Week in Apps: August 26, 2011
This week in apps features the digital debut of The Poky Little Puppy, the bestselling picture book originally published in 1942. The story follows the poky little puppy who has to go to bed without any strawberry shortcake.
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This Week in Apps: August 19, 2011
This week in apps features a look inside the human body, a quick cookbook, and two picture books becoming interactive e-books.
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This Week in Children's Apps: August 18, 2011
This week in children's apps features two legendary children's books becoming interactive e-books: Robert McConnell narrates his own book in Norbert Nipken, which also features art by a Pixar veteran. Dr. Seuss's classic There's a Wocket in My Pocket! teaches children about unknown creatures that have names that rhyme with objects.
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New Student Apps, Deals from Amazon, Barnes & Noble
Amazon.com has released an Amazon Student App, which lets students compare prices and shop for textbooks and other merchandise; and Barnes & Noble announced plans to sell its Nook digital reading devices through its network of more than 630 B&N college bookstores.
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CBDReader Adds Apps for Apple, Android Devices
Christianbook.com president Ray Hendrickson announced Thursday that the company's CBDReader is now available in the Apple App Store and the Android Market as a free download to any iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, and to over 475 Android-based smart phones and tablets.
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This Week in Apps: August 5, 2011
This week in apps features the first in the line of Berenstain Bears apps, as well as Giant Trouble, a graphic novel-style animation story set in Ireland.
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This Week in Children's Apps: August 4, 2011
This week we feature the first in the line of Berenstain Bears apps: a story about the battle over bedtime between the adult bears and the children bears. Also featured: Giant Trouble, a graphic novel-style animation story set in Ireland.
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This Week in Apps: July 29, 2011
This week in apps features an adventure with a penguin family; an interactive 3-D search; monkeys; and more.
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Getting Apps Approved: Two Case Studies
Print-book purists take note: Apple recently announced that the world's 200 million iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch users have downloaded more than 15 billion apps from its 425,000-app collection. According to the company, books are among its most popular offerings (games are #1). To shed light on Apple's approval process, we turned to two well-regarded app publishers, who discuss recent titles that earned a quick "yes" from Steve Jobs's magic kingdom.