The Children's Book Council

November 28, 2012

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Introduces 'Curious George® Multi-Touch Digital Storybook & Activities Series' for the iPad

Built using the iBooks® Author tool from Apple®, Curious George Says Thank You and Curious George in the Big City are the first ever multi-touch titles to feature Curious George.
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November 19, 2012

Disney Publishing Launches Two Wreck-it Ralph Apps

The publisher has created a comic prequel called "Wreck-it Ralph: Hero's Duty Interactive Comic" and a film retelling called "Wreck-It Ralph Storybook Deluxe."
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November 14, 2012

Ann M. Martin's The Baby-sitters Club® Series to be Released as eBooks in December

First twenty eBooks in bestselling Scholastic Series to feature classic cover look.
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November 08, 2012

Nosy Crow to Release First Android Apps

The independent children's book and app publisher has signed a new deal with Barnes & Noble.
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October 17, 2012

Diary of a Wimpy Kid eBooks Available on Storia Starting October 30th

Scholastic has signed an agreement with ABRAMS to offer the entire Diary of a Wimpy Kid series on Storia®, an eReading app for kids.
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September 25, 2012

Raven Tree Press Announces Titles Available on Kindle Devices and Apps!

Each 32-page picture book features family-oriented storylines and beautiful illustrations.
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September 20, 2012

Scholastic Launches 'Clifford's BIG Birthday App'

The publisher is celebrating Clifford The Big Red Dog's 50th Anniversary with the release of this new app.
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August 15, 2012

Scholastic Announces Infinity Ring, a New Multi-Platform Time Travel Adventure Series for Kids Ages 8-12

The 2-week sneak preview of the 3-D Infinity Ring online game starts today on www.infinityring.com
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August 08, 2012

Nosy Crow Launches Its First Non-Fiction Book App for Children:

The debut app in the publisher's new interactive life-science/non-fiction series was written by Emma Trannter and illustrated by Barry Tranter.
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July 10, 2012

Judy Blume's 'Forever' Out in eBook Format for the First Time

Judy Blume fans, rejoice! Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has released her 1975 classic title as an eBook.
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June 29, 2012

E-Booksellers Tracking How Readers Engage with E-Books

The Wall Street Journal reports on how e-booksellers are monitoring reading and learning habits
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June 20, 2012

Bookshare and Mada Launch Accessible Arabic eBook Collection

Bookshare online library expands digital book collection for Arabic readers with print disabilities.
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June 20, 2012

Reading Rainbow Is Back and It's An App!

LeVar Burton Reinvents the Beloved Brand and Inspires Reading for Today’s Digital Kids
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June 19, 2012

Author/Illustrator/Social Media Maven Debbie Ohi Gets the Scoop on Magic Town

The site is a virtual picture book platform and is open to submissions from children's book authors and illustrators.
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June 19, 2012

Reading Rainbow App to Be Launched At Midnight Tonight!

Says Burton, "We have reinvented [Reading Rainbow] from the bottom up to make sure that, like the television show, everything was tied together to real-word experiences. [Our goal is to bring together] fun, education, magic, adventure, and the journey.”
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June 13, 2012

'The Monster at the End of this Book' App Awarded Inaugural Cynopsis:Kids !magination Award

Collaboration between Callaway Digital Arts and Sesame Workshop Wins ‘Best App: Preschool’ Category
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June 05, 2012

Open Road Media and Seventeen Magazine Form E-Book Partnership

Kicks off With “True Teen Stories” – An Ebook Series of True-Life Stories From Real Teens
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May 31, 2012

OverDrive Launches Its Own Browser-Based e-Reading Platform With Booki.sh Technology

OverDrive acquired the e-reader technology firm Book.ish on March 5.
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May 29, 2012

"Magic Town", An Online Children's Book Experience, Debuts

Created by Mindshapes, an interactive learning company, the site has partnered with children's publishers including Simon & Schuster, Oxford University Press, and Usborne Publishing.
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May 24, 2012

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Partners with B&N to Offer Pre-Loaded Nooks for K-12

K–12 school libraries can now order these bundles, containing books ranging from International Reading Association (IRA) recommendations to HMH picks.
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May 23, 2012

Hachette to Bring Its Front List eBooks Back Into Libraries

A new pilot program will bring the company's eBooks back into libraries after they were pulled in 2010.
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May 08, 2012

Full Video Footage of the Children's Choice Book Awards Gala!

Host a viewing party in your school, library, bookstore, or home!
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May 03, 2012

Target Phasing Out Amazon's Kindle

The move coincides with the discounter's plan to create mini shops of Apple Inc. products in 25 of its stores this year.
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April 30, 2012

Step Into (e-)Reading With 'Elmo's Big Birthday Bash!'

Sesame Street and Random House launch a new app for Elmo’s birthday.
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April 12, 2012

Junie B. Jones's First Website Ever!

Check out the brand new website that is everything Junie B. Jones.
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April 03, 2012

Has Children's Digital Reading Arrived?

Scholastic's Media President Deborah Forte on "Early Days for Children’s E-Books"
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March 26, 2012

Secret Agent Splat's Mission: The App

Check out the newest app from HarperCollins.
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March 19, 2012

Suzanne Collins: The Best-Selling Kindle Author of All Time

According to Amazon, 'Hunger Games' author Suzanne Collins is the best-selling author on Kindle of all time.
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March 19, 2012

2012 Bologna Children's Book Fair: The Landscape of Children's eBooks

At the 2012 Bologna Children's Book Fair, publishers discuss the future of digital children's books.
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March 15, 2012

Press Release: Reading Rainbow Launches First-Ever App This Spring, Curated by Levar Burton

RRKidz has partnered with leading publishers to bring Reading Rainbow to a new generation
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March 14, 2012

When Growth in Children’s E-Books Hits the Poverty Line

The 44% of American children living in low-income households are at a disadvantage in the e-reading revolution
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March 08, 2012

Meet the iPad 3

What Apple's newest generation iPad means for publishers.
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March 08, 2012

eBlume

Random House Children's will release ebook editions of Judy Blume's books for young readers.
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March 06, 2012

Scholastic Launches Storia, New Proprietary e-book Platform

Following 18 months of development, Scholastic is launching a beta test featuring 1,300 titles
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March 01, 2012

Penguin Launches Richelle Mead Community-Based App

Penguin to launch the app for the bestselling author, The World of Richelle Mead, on March 2
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February 13, 2012

‘And to Think That I Saw It On Mulberry Street’: The App

The 1937 classic by Dr. Seuss is now available as an app.
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February 10, 2012

Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet

Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet: An educator weighs the pros and cons.
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February 09, 2012

iPads, Kindles, and Nooks, Oh My!

Find out which e-reader is best for your reading habits.
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January 30, 2012

Publishers and Social Media. Who Is Doing It Best?

The data is in and publishers have been ranked.
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January 26, 2012

Random House & Sesame Street Launch eImprint

Random House Children’s Books has partnered with Sesame Workshop to launch a new digital imprint.
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January 24, 2012

Winners of Publishing Innovation Awards Announced

Penguin, Random House, Hachette, Simon & Schuster and other publishing powerhouses were among the winners at the second annual Publishing Innovation Awards
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January 12, 2012

Harper Launches Digital-to-Print At Retail Today

Lion's share of publisher's backlist titles now available as digital files that can be printed at indie bookstores with EBMs
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January 12, 2012

New Kindle Publishing Guidelines Released (Kindle Fire included)

A recap of the picture book publishing guidelines for Kindle Fire
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January 11, 2012

How to Build A Best-Selling Children's Book App

A case study on National Geographic's “Weird But True” app
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January 10, 2012

Small Study Finds That Children Preferred E-book to Print for Reading & Learning

Publishers, educators, and literacy organizations weigh in
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January 09, 2012

Get eBooks From Your Local Bookstore & Library

Using Google Books, readers can buy digital editions of eBooks from thousands of indie bookstores nationwide including Powell’s Books in Portland, OR and Word in Brooklyn, NY.
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January 05, 2012

Dr. Seuss’ ‘If I Ran The Zoo’ Now An App

Dr. Seuss’ classic children’s book 'If I Ran The Zoo', is now available in app form from digital publishing company Oceanhouse Media
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January 03, 2012

Walter Dean Myers Named New National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature, 2012-2013

Prolific Author Chooses “Reading Is Not Optional” as Banner for Platform
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December 19, 2011

Bearport Publishing Releases WOW! Books for Kids iPad® App

The new app provides parents and kids with access to more than 150 nonfiction eBooks
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December 16, 2011

Little Critter Story Book Apps Dominate Android Book Apps List

Oceanhouse Media’s digital versions of Mercer Mayer‘s classic children’s story books are dominating the charts in the Android Market this week.
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December 08, 2011

'Berenstain Bears’ Bedtime Battle' Is Top Android Book App This Week

The children’s book app nabs the top spot from long standing position holder WolframAlpha
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December 07, 2011

Judy Blume's classic 'Fudge' series released as e-books

The best-selling author's Fudge series are now being sold as e-books.
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December 06, 2011

Paddington Bear Gets ebook Treatment

Author Michael Bond gives go-ahead for digital versions
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December 06, 2011

Comics & Kids Books Are Top Grossing iPad Book Apps This Week

According to research from AppData
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November 30, 2011

How Will We Read: Children's Books? HuffPo Interviews Candlewick's President & Publisher Karen Lotz

"In 5 years you will have an entirely new marketplace of digital reading material for young children, in all new forms"
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November 18, 2011

John Grisham Young Adult Books Released Digitally

Grisham's Theodore Boone young adult novels were released as eBooks for the first time on 11/17
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November 14, 2011

Scholastic to Release a Series of Short eBooks Starting December 25

7 standalone titles to be bundled as, 'The 39 Clues: Rapid Fire'.
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November 08, 2011

Hachette eBook Sales Up 134%

According to the company, eBooks now represent 21% of HBG’s net sales, which is up from 9% of net sales for Q3 2010.
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November 04, 2011

Barnes & Noble To Reveal New Nook Tablet On Monday

Barnes & Noble plans will begin preselling the tablets on Monday and the device will ship November 16th
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October 29, 2011

eBook Sales up 116% in August

The American Association of Publishers has released its estimated sales figures for August 2011
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October 20, 2011

Random House, Inc. Releases First Entertainment App

In conjunction with new book by bestselling pop-up artist, David A. Carter
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October 17, 2011

INFOGRAPHIC - Battle of the Bookworms: Traditional readers vs e-book users

Who reads more? Who buys more books?
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October 13, 2011

SLJ Reviews Nosy Crow's 'Cinderella' App

"A timeless rags-to-ballgown tale gets a delightful digital makeover in this app"
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October 13, 2011

Jackson Fish Market Books Offers Free Downloads

“We’re like Netflix for recordable books,” says Hillel Cooperman. “We want to be everywhere.”
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October 06, 2011

Two-Thirds of Kids Say They Will Always Want to Read Books Printed on Paper, According to Scholastic Study

Findings from the "2010 Scholastic Kids and Family Reading Report"
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September 27, 2011

Random House Children's to Publish Michael Scott eBook in November

'Billy the Kid and the Vampyres of Vegas: A Lost Story from the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel' to be the second story in a six-part eBook series original
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