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  1138 readers PRESS RELEASE: Paul Mueller-Bruehl Joins zuuka as Creative Director Santa Barbara, Calif. – April 2012 – zuuka, publishers of the iTalk and iStoryTime interactive storytelling and educational apps, today announced that Paul Mueller-Bruehl will join the company as Creative Director. Paul comes to zuuka from Apple Inc., where he was Design Lead, Mobile Commerce since 2010. Beginning

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  Taking zuuka from Garage to International Children’s Digital Publishing Company

  824 readersWhat makes a 35-something with no publishing background an expert on a book blog? In this case it’s the result of a couple of little people, Mia (6) and Chase (3) and a thirst for technology, which put me on the path to becoming founder of zuuka (iStoryTime), one of the most well known producers

• Demibooks Launches New Curated E-Bookstore For Children as iPad App

  2406 readers PRESS RELEASE: Demibooks launches Storytime, a curated marketplace for interactive children’s books on the iPad CHICAGO, April 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — Demibooks, Inc. (demibooks.com), a leading digital publishing technologies company, announces the launch of its new reader app, Demibooks® Storytime.  Storytime is a curated, multi-publisher marketplace for interactive children’s books produced on the Demibooks Composer platform. Demibooks now

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  Nosy Crow Rights Deals for Dutch Kids’ Apps with Gottmer

  990 readersby Dennis Abrams Nosy Crow Managing Director Kate Wilson announced that the Dutch publisher Gottmer will be publishing a full range of Nosy Crow’s award-winning storybook apps in Dutch, beginning with Nosy Crow’s acclaimed Three Little Pigs app, described by The Huffington Post as “nothing short of a masterpiece.” Nosy Crow’s cutting-edge apps are highly interactive multimedia

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  5 Classic Children’s Tales Reinvented for the iPad

  479 readers As anyone who has seen this video of a 2-year-old using an iPad knows, Apple’s famed touchscreen device has proven an intuitive, interactive learning tool for children. Yet creating apps for children — whether that’s musical games, learning exercises for children with autism or full-featured e-books — is no easy feat. Fixing children’s attention on an

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  5 Classic Children’s Tales Reinvented for the iPad

  316 readers As anyone who has seen this video of a 2-year-old using an iPad knows, Apple’s famed touchscreen device has proven an intuitive, interactive learning tool for children. Yet creating apps for children — whether that’s musical games, learning exercises for children with autism or full-featured e-books — is no easy feat. Fixing children’s attention on an

• New Children’s Reading Platform Speakaboos Launches With DK, Abrams and Other Pub Partners

  88 readers[Press Release]Groundbreaking Children’s Literacy Platform, Speakaboos, to Launch with Industry Leading Partners New subscription-based service offering interactive digital storybooks led by a team of experts from Nick Jr., Blue’s Clues, PBS Kids’ SuperWHY!, Nook Kids, ScholasticLeaders in the children’s entertainment and publishing industries have joined forces with Speakaboos, the education focused, multi-platform storybook subscription service

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  7 lessons in magazine iPad app design from an industry guru

  764 readers Here’s a great article from Engage.  At the end of the article, Robert Newman, discusses which type of magazines he thinks will survive and which will die.  Newman is the creative director of Readers Digest and former creative director of Real Simple.  He’s also design director of Fortune, Entertainment Weekly, Vibe, Details and New York. Lesson

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  With Kid’s Books “It’s Not Just About the App, Dummkopf!”

  2103 readersChildren’s book publishers are enchanted by interactive apps, but forgoing the inherent market advantages of the basic e-book is a big mistake. Editorial by Ralph Moellers, Terzio Verlag MUNICH: E-books for children have been getting a rather lukewarm reception by traditional German children’s book publishers. Not even in the US, where e-books seem to pummel the traditional

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  Barry O’Neill Talks Children’s Book Apps

  386 readersIdeal Binary, a Dublin-based interactive books publisher annoucned today that they have raised $1.03M in venture capital. The company, which was founded in 2008, is responsible for iPad editions of children’s classics such as Rapunzel, Red Riding Hood and Rumpelstiltskin. We caught up with Ideal Binary chief Barry O’Neill to talk about children’s book apps