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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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DPCI Nominated as a Channel Reseller Partner for the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite

New York, NY (PRWEB) August 22, 2011

DPCI, an interactive technology agency that builds innovative applications that help organizations create, publish, enrich and deliver content to Web, print, mobile, and tablet devices, announces its nomination as a reseller partner for the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite. Through the partner program, DPCI’s Adobe Certified Expert Professional Services team will provide services related to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, including workflow consulting, implementation services, training, and support to help customers reach their multi-channel publishing goals.

The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is a turnkey set of hosted software services and viewer technologies, integrated with Adobe InDesign CS5 and CS5.5 software, to create, distribute, monetize and analyze digital publications for use on Apple iPad, Android, and Blackberry PlayBook tablets. With the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite, publishers can efficiently produce engaging digital publications, using familiar tools and creative staff. The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite hosted solution is available in two editions: a turnkey solution with the Professional Edition and customizable integration with the Enterprise Edition.

As an Adobe InDesign Server solution partner, DPCI is also offering integration of the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite with InDesign Server to help customers automate and optimize tablet publishing tasks. DPCI is also offering consulting and training services to help customers further extend the capabilities of the K4 Publishing System by adding the Adobe Digital Publishing toolset to create tablet editions from existing K4 content. Additionally, DPCI will integrate the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite with Web content management and digital asset management systems on behalf of DPCI’s customers.

“The Adobe Digital Publishing Suite is Adobe’s newest answer to multi-channel publishing,” says Ivan MIronchuk, Director of Integration Services at DPCI. “With the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite we now have a quick-to-market tablet publishing option that helps our customers extend the value of their content to a whole new breed of devices and digital experiences.”

About DPCI

DPCI is a technology innovation company that helps organizations improve the way they create, enrich, manage and deliver content to Web, print, mobile, tablet and e-reader devices. DPCI helps customers design and implement Web Content Management Systems, Digital Asset Management, Online Collaboration Software, Multi-Channel Systems, Workflow Management solutions, and recently, Semantic technologies. DPCI serves customers throughout the United States, including Comcast, The College Board, Mitre, New York University, McGraw-Hill Education, ESPN and Thomson-Reuters. For more information, visit:

Web:    http://www.databasepublish.com

Blog:    http://www.databasepublish.com/blog

Twitter:    http://twitter.com/joebachana

About Adobe Systems Incorporated

Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. For more information, visit http://www.adobe.com

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