“In our model,” Richter explained, “we have many steps that a parent or child can enter, for free, or with app purchase, or subscription – it’s a helluva deal.” By Dennis Abrams With the issue of discoverability dominating discussion for… Read More

Ruckus Media Group, publisher of eBook apps ranging from Transformers to Crayola, has just launched a new app which is bound to be the darling of teachers, parents, and anyone who is concerned about making sure children read. Ruckus Reader… Read More

Remember when at the end of 2011 ASUS had some legal problems with Hasbro, that wanted trademark for the Transformer branding, saying that people may associated the quad core Prime tablet with the Transformer robots?  Well, now a federal judge… Read More

Asustek Computer Inc. has begun sending out over-the-air updates to their 10.1-inch Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet. The new update fixes and upgrades certain things like security and other under the hood aspects of the Transformers operating system. Asus calls… Read More

The California-based app maker iStoryTime — known for kids book apps like The Smurfs, Transformers and  Kung Fu Panda — has raised $2 million in Series A funding to help the company develop more interactive children’s books. TechCrunch has more:… Read More

Hasbro has partnered with Ruckus Media Group to release a new kids book app for the iPhone/iPad called Chuck and Friends: Friends for the Long Haul. The app is the first of a series of collaborations between Hasbro and Ruckus… Read More

Could Amazon be offering the Kindle free by the end of the year? Kevin Kelly, former editor of Wired, thinks so. He points out that an analyst charted the decreases in the Kindle’s price over the last two years and… Read More