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‘Five Little Pumpkins’ Wins Home Publishing Innovation Award in eBook Children’s Category

Five Little Pumpkins as interactive eBook

Santa Barbara, CA and Offenbach (PRWEB) January 25, 2012

zuuka, via its publishing label iStoryTime, and HarperCollins Children’s Books are proud to announce that Five Little Pumpkins is the winner of the Publishing Innovation Award in the Children’s category.

“It is a real honor to have the industry acknowledge both the creative work and long hours that went into producing Five Little Pumpkins, the first-ever interactive children’s ebook on the iBookstore,” said Graham Farrar, Founder of zuuka. “We strive to provide parents and their children quality titles that immerse the reader into the story, leveraging the platforms we work on, and get them excited about reading.”

The Five Little Pumpkins storybook for the iPad, iPhone and iPod® touch was developed by zuuka’s in-house studio. The ebook features ghostly animations and spooky sounds for a hands-on reading experience and is available on the iBookstore.

Released in partnership with HarperCollins Children’s Books, Five Little Pumpkins brings Dan Yaccarino’s illustrations to life in this perennial rhyming favorite of parents, teachers and kids alike, a full soundtrack and animations that activate when touched are featured throughout the book for the ultimate storytime adventure.

Toddlers and young readers are sure to enjoy the rhythmic story and vibrant and bold illustrations from Dan Yaccarino as he brings these pumpkins to life with personality and style. The book features read-to-me audio, animations and sound effects throughout.

Pricing and Availability:

Five Little Pumpkins is $ 5.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide via iBooks in the Books category.

ABOUT ZUUKA

zuuka publishes iTalk and iStoryTime – an interactive storytelling experience delivered to the convenience of your mobile device – which features a series of illustrated and narrated books created by parents for kids. iStoryTime books have been highlighted in the New York Times, LA Times, CBS Early Show, theiPhoneMom.com, CNET and are decorated with Publisher’s Innovation Award, PTPA Media’s Parent Tested Parent Approved Seal of Approval, the Children’s Technology Review’s Editor’s Choice Award and Reader’s Choice for Best Apps for Kids. With over 100 titles to choose from including favorites such as Kung Fu Panda, Shrek, How to Train Your Dragon, Peter Pan and Binky the Pink Elephant, iStoryTime books are an excellent tool for both educating and entertaining children ages two years and up. These storybooks can be enjoyed in several different modes ranging from automatic to manual, depending upon the development and preferences of the user. For additional information, visit http://www.iStoryTime.com.

ABOUT HARPERCOLLINS CHILDREN’S BOOKS

HarperCollins Children’s Books is one of the leading publishers of children’s books. Respected worldwide for its tradition of publishing quality, award-winning books for young readers, HarperCollins is home to many timeless treasures – Charlotte’s Web, The Chronicles of Narnia, Goodnight Moon, Where the Sidewalk Ends, the Ramona series, Where the Wild Things Are; and popular new classics – The Graveyard Book, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Warriors, and Fancy Nancy. Consistently at the forefront of digital innovation, HarperCollins Children’s Books delights young readers through engaging storytelling in all formats, including ebooks and apps. HarperCollins Children’s Books is a division of HarperCollins Publishers, one of the leading English-language publishers in the world and a subsidiary of News Corporation. Headquartered in New York, HarperCollins has publishing groups in the US, Canada, the UK, Australia/New Zealand, and India. You can visit HarperCollins Children’s Books at http://www.harpercollinschildrens.com and HarperCollins Publishers at http://www.harpercollins.com.

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Lending eBook Introduces a New Service that Facilitates Kindle and Barnes and Noble Lending and Borrowing

Lending eBook – Lend and Borrow eBooks

(PRWEB) September 20, 2011

Lending eBook has officially launched and introduces the concept of allowing people to easily lend and borrow ebooks. Many people who have e-readers are often the only ones in their circle of friends that own one. Even if they are not, most of the time they do not share the same taste in books. Lending eBook allows people who have the same taste in books to borrow and lend them to each other.

The new lending website offers many innovative features that make this service standout from the competition. One of the great new aspects if the concept of rewards and achievements. Customers can earn custom rewards for lending, borrowing and reading books! Rewards are also dispensed during holidays and special occasions when the website is visited.

There is also a feedback system that rates lenders and borrowers upon a successful completion of a lend or borrow. Users can leave a small message and rate the transaction! This will allow the best ranked users to appear higher on the search result when browsing for books.

Lending eBook focuses on both Barnes and Noble and Amazon books that are flagged lending enabled. Books can be loaned for a total of 14 days and then bounce back to the book owners. Only USA flagged accounts can lend books but anyone in the world can borrow the books.

The new service is not limited exclusively to e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle or Barnes and Noble Nook Color. If you have access to the official Android, iOS, Blackberry, WebOS or the MAC/PC readers, you can lend and borrow books.

Lending eBook offers a vibrant community via its forum that allows customers to petition the support staff for technical support and chat with each other. You can discover new authors and form book clubs via the support forum. They also offer their blog that reports on the latest ebook releases to keep patrons informed on when the best new books are dispatched every week.

Joining Lending eBook is completely free and all new users can borrow one book until they are prompted to buy request credits. These credits are as little as .99 and go towards the constant development of the website. Book Lenders earn credits per each lend, so if customers lend books they do not have pay for the privilege to borrow.

“We designed Lending eBook with the intention of offering the best lending service on the internet,” said lead developer Kelly Armstrong. “Our focus is the social media aspect of the website and allow customers to rate books and our upcoming live chat and profile viewing feature, we are also working on an author portal for indie writers to sell their books.”

About lending eBook

Lending eBook is a brand new company with a staff of around 15 people. The Development and creative team are located in Canada, USA, UK and India.

Contact

Kelly Armstrong

Lendingebook.com

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New iPhone App Unlocks the eBook Walled Garden

eBook Search

Portland, Oregon (PRWEB) September 22, 2011

Inkstone Software announces free iOS eBook Search app giving readers over 2 million books free to read on their Kindle, Nook, or iBooks apps after major eBook retailers close their in-app bookstores.

Apple’s recent lock-down of in-app bookstores has left a lot of people adrift in a sea of confusing eBook formats. Books purchased for one reader, can’t be read on another, and it’s becoming increasingly difficult to locate good books for your reader.

However a new free iPhone and iPad app called eBook Search from veteran developers Inkstone Software has come to the rescue, allowing users to tap into a library of over 2 million books, while also giving people the power to download a book to their choice of reader app at the touch of a button. With eBook Search, readers are no longer limited to the books available in one reader app.

“What most owners of eBook reader apps don’t realize is there are huge libraries of free books out there. From timeless classics, to up and coming indie writers, and fan fiction – there is something for everyone”, says Inkstone CEO Patrick Thompson, “But these libraries weren’t easy to access on your iPhone or iPad. That’s why we developed eBook Search.”

After browsing the catalogs, the user simply selects the book, and with a couple of taps on the screen, the book is transferred to the user’s favorite eBook reader like iBooks, Kindle, Nook, or Kobo. And it’s available for him to read on any of those apps or via e-mail.

But creating eBook Search to plug the gap left by Apple is just one side of the coin, according to Thompson. “In today’s economy, many people are finding it hard to justify buying books — especially digital books that cost almost the same as a physical book. Here at Inkstone Software, we believe with eBook Search our customers may never have to buy another book.”

With classic works alongside the latest books by cutting edge indie authors like Cory Doctorow (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel, Sunburst Award, and many more accolades), and popular fan fiction, Thompson may be right.

Thompson’s hope is that this app will help wake up readers to the vast amounts of free, high quality classic and modern novels out there, just waiting to be devoured. “eBook Search is our way to help people find great free books whatever their reader of choice. It is our way of giving back to the community.”

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