This Week in Children's Apps: April 17, 2014

This week in children's apps, we feature an update of a classic app for Easter, and another that takes a trip through the human body with the Cat in the Hat. Continue reading at 'Publishers Weekly'

[ Publishers Weekly | 2014-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
News tagged with: #classic app #human body

Other Publishing stories related to: 'This Week in Children's Apps: April 17, 2014'


Marvel announces augmented reality app, exclusive digital comics at SXSW

Not content with simply doling out free digital comics to fans who favor the tangible page, Marvel is now giving readers a new reason to reach for their tablets: augmented reality. Android and iOS devices will be able to look beyond the page using Marvel AR, an Aurasma-powered app slated to... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ios devices #official announcement


Waterstones to grow children's range and space

Waterstones is set to grow its children’s range and space in stores over the summer... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Finally! Pottermore will open in April

After lengthy beta testing, the Harry Potter website Pottermore will be open to the public starting in early April. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #early april


Pottermore to go live in April

Pottermore, the Harry Potter online experience launched by J K Rowling last year, will go live in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-03-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Making ebooks even more kid-friendly: the Storia reading app from Scholastic

Scholastic's Storia reading app includes many children's titles previously unavailable in ebook format Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ebook format


Scholastic enters the ebook fray with Storia and 1,000 children's stories

Between Google Books, iBooks, Nook, Kindle, Kobo, Sony... you'd figure the ebook field was crowded enough, right? Well, if you're specifically in the market for children's stories, things might look a little less packed. We guess that's why Scholastic is attempting to enter the fray with Storia,... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #google books #interactive features #free ebooks


Cal Ripken Jr. co-authors a second children's book

A new book by Cal Ripken Jr. and journalist Kevin Cowherd focuses on the issue of bullying among children. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Parade Launches App To Enhance Content Offerings

After months of planning, PARADE Magazine is rolling out a mobile app to cultivate advertisers and enhance the content offerings to its existing reader base. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #mobile app #content offerings


Zinio caves to begging, says BlackBerry PlayBook app landing in March

Zinio's magazine app has certainly made the rounds -- Android slabs, the Kindle Fire, the iPad and even the ill-fated TouchPad have had their shining moment with the digital service -- but months of "consideration" for their platform have BlackBerry PlayBook owners feeling left out in the cold.... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-02-29 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #shining moment #rolling stone


Children's book awards finalists annouced

Emerging authors and illustrators have made every category of the New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards this year, alongside their better known counterparts. Continue reading at Stuff

[ Stuff | 2012-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #emerging authors #book awards


Apple Acquires App Search Engine Chomp

 Apple confirmed yesterday that they have acquired the San Francisco-based software company Chomp Inc. Chomp’s feature product is their application search engine that sifts through hundreds of thousands of apps and narrows it down to just a few options for its users. Continue reading at Folio Magazine

[ Folio Magazine | 2012-02-25 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Vogue iPad app to go monthly in September

Vogue's iPad app is to go monthly in September as part of a raft of digital developments, including a focus on mobile optimisation, at upscale magazine publisher Condé Nast. Continue reading at Media Week

[ Media Week | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #ipad app #digital developments


Astronaut Mark Kelly has written a children's book

Mark Kelly, husband of former US Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, will release his children's book about a mouse in space this fall. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor

[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Twitter's Android and iOS app get updates; out on Kindle Fire now, Nook soon

The official Twitter app has just received an update on iOS and Android, bringing new features to both platforms, plus an "optimized" Ice Cream Sandwich experience as seen above. The app is also currently available on Amazon's Appstore for the Kindle Fire now, and the company says it will pop up... Continue reading at Engadget

[ Engadget | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #kindle fire #address book #source links #originally appeared


Stephen Colbert to pen children's book

and Matthew Flamm - Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert, who has more time on his hands now that he's no longer running for president, will publish his first children's book in May, his publisher, Grand Central Publishing, announced on Tuesday. Viewers of The Colbert Report got the word early... Continue reading at Crains New York

[ Crains New York | 2012-02-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #stephen colbert #colbert report


Children's book sales soar in spring half-term break

Sales of children's books rocketed 30% week-on-week as the spring half-term break resulted in... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Bonnier releases Ibrahimović app

Bonnier’s Swedish arm R&D has released an interactive app for the iPad of AC Milan... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Path Isn't Only App to Upload, Store Address Book Data

Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Foursquare and Yelp upload names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers, sometimes without explicit permission. Continue reading at PC World

[ PC World | 2012-02-15 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #phone numbers


Waterstones holds half-term children's 3 for 2

Waterstones has brought its 3 for 2 offer back for one week, but only on children’s books... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2012-02-09 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this |


Apps help Rashbass prepare for The Economist's first fall

The Economist is the magazine industry's undisputed star performer, achieving 61 consecutive circulation rises over the last 31 years, but group chief executive Andrew Rashbass expects global print sales to fall for the first time in 2012, so why is he "delighted"? Continue reading at Media Week

[ Media Week | 2012-02-08 00:00:00 UTC ]
More news stories like this | News stories tagged with: #magazine industry