Tag: Books - Latest Releases

Apr 18, 2013 - Vidya Books, a division of Vidya Gaming LLC, announced that it has successfully raised the necessary funds to secure the launch of its innovative e-book platform and first book. Created by video game makers who love reading, Vidya Books is set to shake up the book publishing industry as the first and only e-book platform that is completely focused on using technology to inspire a passion for reading, rather than as a distraction. The app will be launched for iPad and iPhone within 60 days.

Apr 16, 2013 - Independent publisher Luigi Savagnone announces We knew that... 1.0 for iPad. A narrator tells of a novel he read. Anna and Lucia are two girls of Italian origin, who after having spent a childhood and boyhood, serene and happy in Borneo discovered a love affair between their parents. The narrator, disappointed and unhappy with his life, has only one love: the sea. He ventures alone away from the coast and meets a beautiful mermaid who invites him to go and live in her amazing underwater world.

Apr 15, 2013 - Inkstone Mobile, maker of the top-selling speed-reading, ebook reader, and audiobook apps QuickReader, MegaReader, and Audiobooks HQ, has expanded its library of audiobook content with the addition of a new indie audiobooks catalog and the launch of a new subscription service. The subscription service will be available in a new update to Audiobooks HQ, Audiobooks HQ 2.0, as well as in a new free version of the app, Audiobooks Free.

Apr 15, 2013 - CoolAsh Studio is pleased to introduces Slibby the Snail Adventures: The Stolen Food 1.0 for iPad and iPhone on the App Store at the introductory price of $0.99 USD until May 1th. This great interactive storybook encourage children to actively participate in storytelling process. Adding another level of interactivity, young readers must help Slibby overcome challenges throughout the this gorgeous app.

Apr 12, 2013 - Little Bird Studio today introduces Thumbelina 1.0 for iPad, its premium quality book for children that is a literate, fully interactive retelling of the classic tale by Hans Christian Andersen. Featuring graceful animation, joyful illustrations, professional narration, original music, imaginative sound effects, and more than 10 interactive elements per page, Thumbelina will reveal additional pleasures with every reading. All interactive motion is controlled by the app's built-in physics engine.

Apr 12, 2013 - A Real Mother: stumbling through motherhood is a 136-page collection of Denise Malloy's most popular parenting columns from the Bozeman Daily Chronicle. There are moments in parenting that provide bliss, joy and wonder. A Real Mother is about the other moments. Parents will catch a glimpse of their lives in the pages of A Real Mother and know that it's okay to laugh not only at the ups-and-downs of parenting, but also at themselves.

Apr 12, 2013 - Independent publisher Luigi Savagnone has announced Imagining of tomorrow for iPad. This book is divided into two parts. In the first a narrator tells the moving story of two girls. In the second part, the narrator talks about his life, his malaise in society and his desire to escape. He will find happiness in an underwater world, but it will be only a dream. This book is dedicated to women simple, but clever, and to men humble, not arrogant, but strong and self-confident.

Apr 11, 2013 - Wanderful Interactive Storybooks, the award-winning developer of apps for today's digital kids, announces the release of its interactive storybook apps for Mac computers running OS X. These interactive storybooks, available now in the Apple Mac App store including the award-winning Harry and the Haunted House and Arthur's Teacher Trouble, are also part of the Wanderful storybook collection previously released for iOS devices and originally published by Living Books.

Apr 11, 2013 - Contracorriente Estudio Grafico introduced Digital Photo for iPad, an eBook to learn photography in a more simple and fun way. Digital Photo is an excellent tool for those who still think that changing their camera for a more expensive one is the best way to improve their photographs. This book is dedicated to all of these people, so that they can see for themselves that learning how to properly handle the camera they have instead of spending money on new equipment is much better.