From the press release: HIT Entertainment, RosettaBooks, and Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced that the entire bestselling “Rainbow Magic”™ collection (nine 7-title series, plus one 10-title special edition series), and future series and special editions, are available exclusively in the Kindle Store. RosettaBooks, a pioneer in e-book publishing will launch these books; this marks RosettaBooks’ [...]
Entries Tagged as 'children'
Rainbow Magic children’s books now exclusively available in the Kindle Store
November 24th, 2010 · 1 Comment · press release
Random House, Smashing Ideas to create children’s apps
September 13th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
From the press release: Random House, Inc., the largest U.S. trade-book publisher, announced today a partnership with digital media agency Smashing Ideas to develop book-based children’s Apps for mobile devices. Seattle-based Smashing Ideas is a cutting edge developer of immersive, interactive experiences for all screens, building digital products and destinations around brand characters in the [...]
BNF to launch digital library for children
September 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · digital library
Actualitte are reporitng that the BNF ( French National Library) have launched a website aimed at children. It has narrated books, puzzles, maps of fictional countries, and other games based on well known children books. It looks rather interesting, and if it weren’t in French I would explore further. You can find it here.
HarperCollins Children’s Books launch education apps
August 25th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
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Random House Children’s Books publish their first digital only title
August 24th, 2010 · No Comments · press release
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Children’s books help cause global warming
May 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Uncategorized
The Rainforest Action Network (RAN) has just put out a report linking 18 children’s books (out of a test group of 30) to wood that was harvested from Indonesia’s endangered rain forests. The 30 books are from the top ten U.S. children’s publishers, and most of the publishers had at least one title that failed [...]
Proof that some Parents hate their Children
May 11th, 2010 · No Comments · humor
I came across an article this morning on the Guardian’s book blog about parent’s naming their babies after literary characters. Here s an excerpt: One of the 555 couples to name their baby Cullen was Brad Lafferty and Michelle Mikkelsen. Mikkelsen told the NYT that she read Meyer’s Breaking Dawn while pregnant. “I like old [...]
Hachette Children’s UK is getting into ebooks
April 22nd, 2010 · No Comments · ebookstore news
From The Bookseller: Hachette Children’s UK is to launch its first e-book range in May and will make around 120 titles available as e-books this year. The publisher plans to keep the same pricing for its e-books as its printed editions and is moving towards simultaneous publication of printed books and e-books, where possible. Andrew [...]
The future of children’s book publishing
March 19th, 2010 · No Comments · opinion
From the Washington Post: Jeff Kinney has worked full-time for a decade designing popular kid-friendly Web games. He also writes stories, but his best-selling series, “Diary of a Wimpy Kid,” was originally published online, not in a book. This free online version regularly gets 70,000 hits a day. If he can capture the attention of [...]
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