iStoryTime, along with parent company zuuka, won an award at this year’s Digital Book World for their innovative collaborative effort with Apple. With titles like Five Little Pumpkins, iStoryTime has brought a large amount of content to the smallest of screens, often on the same day as the release of the same content on the big screen.With bestselling apps like Kung Fu … [Read more...] about iStoryTime Reviving Nostalgic Content to Digital Devices
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zuuka, iStoryTime at Digital Book World
GoodEReader is on location at the 2012 Digital Book World conference in New York and this year’s event is a veritable who’s who of industry experts. Much of the discussion at this year’s event has focused on children’s digital content, for everything from entertaining interactive ebooks to educational content in digital textbooks, especially in light of Apple’s recent … [Read more...] about zuuka, iStoryTime at Digital Book World
The Year of the Enhanced Ebook
Enhanced ebooks appeared in digital platforms shortly after the floodgates opened for electronic reading, many of which were app books created by self-published digital authors with the technological know-how to develop and market their own works. Some of the features that qualify ebooks as enhanced include audio voiceover, embedded graphics, and a massive complement of … [Read more...] about The Year of the Enhanced Ebook
New in Digital Reading for 2012
This is the time of year when sources start to close out their thoughts on the current year and make heady predictions for the coming year. New technology, new updates and upgrades, new content. And one of the sources that GoodEReader has been watching closely this year, iStoryTime and its parent company zuuka, have a few things up their sleeves for next year, throwing … [Read more...] about New in Digital Reading for 2012
uTales Develops Digital Access for Children’s Content
Arguably the hottest demographic of reading consumers in digital publishing is the young readers of interactive storybook readers. GoodEReader.com has covered a large number of companies like iStoryTime that focus on fully-interactive illustrated and narrated book apps for children. These apps are the top-of-the-line reading option when it comes to juvenile content, … [Read more...] about uTales Develops Digital Access for Children’s Content
Digital Content Travels at the Speed of Light
iStoryTime, the leading publisher of children’s interactive book apps and more recently, the publisher tapped for producing Apple’s first-ever venture into EPUB3 interactive and animated children’s books, is slated to launch its newest children’s title for iOS devices on the same day that the movie upon which it is based is set to premier in theaters around the country.With … [Read more...] about Digital Content Travels at the Speed of Light
iStoryTime Releases Apple’s First Interactive iBook Title
GoodEReader.com has covered several news items from iStoryTime, the interactive children’s book app publisher. iStoryTime is a publisher under parent-company zuuka, a worldwide leader in digital content for children and holder of a top market leading position thanks to its work with such publishers as Random House and HarperCollins, as well as animation studios such as … [Read more...] about iStoryTime Releases Apple’s First Interactive iBook Title
Children’s Digital Content a Hot Topic at Frankfurt Book Fair
At the second Publisher’s Lunch of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the topic of discussion turned to digital content for children. As GoodEReader.com mentioned yesterday, the advent of the Kindle Fire tablet and the release of over 1,000 titles for children on the color-enabled device means a race between the tablet companies to provide quality ebooks for kids.One of the major … [Read more...] about Children’s Digital Content a Hot Topic at Frankfurt Book Fair
Kindle Fire Reaching Out to the Family
Barnes&Noble announced an eye-opening statistic this year that the largest customer demographic to purchase (or receive as a gift) the Nook Color was middle-aged women, and after further scrutiny, that news made perfect sense. The Nook Color is a light-weight Android-based tablet which was promoted through media campaigns for simple e-reading of books and full-color … [Read more...] about Kindle Fire Reaching Out to the Family
Digital Comics Embedded in App Video Games
D7 Games from the D7 Studios, creators of app games Stan Lee’s The Traveler and Hamster Busboy, have just released their latest downloadable game, Teddy Tumble, available for iOS and Android devices. So why does GoodEReader.com involve itself in the workings of downloadable game content? Because it’s bringing the world of digital comics with it.On the surface, Teddy Tumble … [Read more...] about Digital Comics Embedded in App Video Games
Scholastic and Ruckus Media Form Digital and Print Company
Scholastic book always resonated with a young Michael Kozlowski. Since the tender age of five, Scholastic would come to my school bringing more books than you could shake a stick at. My parents always encouraged reading over television and video games, so this was my favourite part of the school year. I would buy Hardy Boy books and man learning ones and then run home and read … [Read more...] about Scholastic and Ruckus Media Form Digital and Print Company
Juvenile Book Apps Leading the Way in Digital Reading
GoodEReader.com has profiled several companies that are busy developing interactive app books for various color and audio supported devices that can download app-based content. The majority of these companies seem to publish a strict diet of children's content, given that part of the full interactive experience is the all-important audio narration which many young readers still … [Read more...] about Juvenile Book Apps Leading the Way in Digital Reading
iStoryTime Expanding with New Investment Funds
We profiled a strong front-runner in the app book market over the summer when iStoryTime partnered with HP to pre-install its children’s multi-interactive book app, Kung Fu Panda 2, on the newly released Touchpad tablet. At the time, iStoryTime was holding quite steady in terms of sales of its many children’s apps in the Apple store. Now, the app book publisher has issued a … [Read more...] about iStoryTime Expanding with New Investment Funds
GoodEReader.com and iStoryTime: Kung Fu Panda 2 Interactive Children’s Book App Giveaway
Earlier this month, GoodeReader.com posted a company profile of an interactive children’s book app publisher, iStoryTime. They came back to us recently with some free downloads of their #1 selling iTunes book app for our readers. Remember, these apps work on any iOS device and the new HP TouchPad webOS system.We are running a CONTEST to give away 10 copies of this game that … [Read more...] about GoodEReader.com and iStoryTime: Kung Fu Panda 2 Interactive Children’s Book App Giveaway