This week in children's apps, we feature educational apps reviewed and approved by experts at the Smithsonian. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'
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The Financial Times is preparing to kill off its iPad and iPhone app for good, signalling its final conversion from executable-app to web-app publishing. The news publisher launched a HTML5 web app and pulled its iOS app off iTunes Store in mid-2011 ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-05-01 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Corsair publisher James Gurbutt and editor Sarah Castleton are launching a "bijou imprint... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Almost a year after it was first announced 3M's Cloud Library ebook lending service is getting a proper rollout. Introduced today at a beta site in St. Paul, the system is now ready for its kiosks, e-readers and apps to hit the hands and eyes of library patrons. The touch-based Discovery... Continue reading at Engadget
[ Engadget | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Profile Books is re-inventing the “choose your own adventure” genre for the digital... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-26 00:00:00 UTC ]
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You don't need a special reader to enjoy ebooks if you already own a smartphone or tablet. Continue reading at Stuff
[ Stuff | 2012-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Schools and libraries specialist Raintree is launching into India with locally produced books... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Author Ruby Roth's new book 'Vegan Is Love' discusses how food gets from the farm to the kitchen table. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Despite a cheeky promotional claim that profitability is "not something we think about," Punch has a grand vision of becoming a lucrative tablet publishing platform. But first, a quiz: hedge fund or organic farm?David Bennahum is the CEO of Punch, a news and entertainment app that launched last... Continue reading at Fast Company
[ Fast Company | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Vintage Classics has launched a new children’s list featuring such out-of-copyright... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Macmillan Children’s Books is launching a £10,000 literary prize to be judged by... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The 'ttyl' series by Lauren Myracle and 'The Color of Earth' by Kim Dong Hwa top the 2011 rankings of most challenged books. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-04-10 00:00:00 UTC ]
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YouTube co-founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen have a new project up their sleeves under their parent company, AVOS. Within the last 24 hours, the duo launched a landing page for their latest project, Zeen. AVOS is responsible for acquiring Delicious ... Continue reading at Editor & Publisher
[ Editor & Publisher | 2012-04-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The major trade publishers do not appear in imminent danger of fading away. With Random House’s release of 2011 financial results late last month, the four large trade houses that report results all posted operating margins that topped 10%. Although the four companies—Lagardère Publishing... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-04-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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More tablet experimentation from publishers, this time via reading apps Pulse and Zite. Zite, which already offered readers excerpts from Bonnier's Popular Science magazine, will now be doing that with 20 other Bonnier titles. And Pulse will be bring content from 8 publishers, including Venture... Continue reading at AllThingsD
[ AllThingsD | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Continuing to diversify beyond its role as a printer, RR Donnelley made a reported $2.5 million investment in the catalog shopping app CoffeeTable, which allows tablet users to browse and purchase from multiple retailers’ catalogs directly w Continue reading at Folio Magazine
[ Folio Magazine | 2012-04-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Helen Marriage has been appointed as head of marketing at Hodder Children’s Books.... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-04-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Aquafadas, a French digital publishing company, has launched a platform that allows publishers to build multimedia apps for children’s books, comics, magazines, and newspapers. Using Aquafadas’s Ave AppFactory desktop application and Adobe InDesign, publishers can produce apps that offer a... Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2012-03-30 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonny Duddle, the concept artist for Aardman film The Pirates! In An Adventure With Scientists, is named overall winner of the prestigious Waterstones Children's Book Prize. Continue reading at BBC News
[ BBC News | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Jonny Duddle, a concept artist for the new Aardman Animation film "The Pirates! In An... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The Kindle Touch 3G is to be made available in the UK from 27th April as part of a major launch... Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
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