Oceanhouse Media’s Dr. Seuss iPad and iPhone apps are among our favorite kid’s eBook apps and a number of them have reached the #1 spot in the App Store. If you share our sentiments, you’ll be as excited as we are to hear Oceanhouse Media just announced three new Berenstain Bear apps: The Berenstain Bears Say Their Prayers, The Berenstain Bears Go To Sunday School and The Berenstain Bears and the Golden Rule.
Kids feel good when they know how much Mommy, Daddy, Grandma and Grandpa love them and the collection of “Love Me” iPad eBooks from Brighter Minds Media is a great way to show them. Each one of these cute little apps focuses on a little bear’s special relationship with one of his parents or grandparents. He talks about all the fun things they do together, the nice things his parents or grandparents do for him and ends each page with “I know my Mommy (Daddy, Grandma or Grandpa) loves me.”
These kid friendly apps have two modes: Story and Numbers. Kids can relate to the colorful pages and cute story lines in Story mode. Each story is read aloud by a professional narrator and users swipe the page when they’re ready to move on to the next one. You also have the option to turn the narration and background music on or off so you can have the story read to you or read it on your own.
Oceanhouse Media is celebrating 50 years of Dr. Seuss’s Green Eggs and Ham by dropping the price of all its Dr. Seuss iPad/iPhone/iPod apps by 50%.
Did you know 50 years ago Dr. Seuss’s publisher (Bennett Cerf) bet him $50 he could not write a book using only 50 words? Needless to say, Dr. Seuss won that bet and out of it came Green Eggs and Ham, the #4 best selling English language children’s book of all time.
You simply can’t go wrong with children’s classics like The Cat in the Hat, Hop On Pop and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. We’ve reviewed several of Oceanhouse Media’s Dr. Seuss iPad apps and enjoyed them all. Whether you’re just starting your Dr. Seuss collection of iPad apps or trying to finishing it off, now is the perfect time to buy. Don’t wait long! The price drop is a limited time offer and we don’t know when it ends.
Oceanhouse Media’s Dr. Seuss iPad book apps currently available in the App Store:
If you love Dr. Seuss books as much as my family, you’ll be happy to hear about two more iPad eBook titles available in the App Store by beloved children’s author Dr. Seuss. App developer, Oceanhouse Media, announced the release of Yertle the Turtle and The Big Brag. Upon release, both eBooks were immediately featured by Apple in New & Noteworthy and are already climbing the charts.
We’ve reviewed several Dr. Seuss titles from Oceanhouse Media in recent months and recommend them all. These universal apps take full advantage of the large iPad screen providing a wonderful reading experience for kids of all ages. Enjoy the whimsical text and artwork you know and love from Dr. Seuss every time you sit down to read.
Book features include:
Dr. Seuss lovers will want to add Yertle the Turtle and The Big Brag to your iPad app collection. Enjoy them this weekend so download them today for $3.99 and $1.99, respectively.
The ever increasing number of apps in the App Store includes many great educational eBook apps for children but ABC by Paul McDougall for the iPad is a bit different. If you purchase McDougall’s iPad app, you’ll not only get a great app for your child but also help support the donation of print copies of the same book to children’s hospitals and libraries in need. McDougall uses a portion of the proceeds from the sale of each eBook and traditional book to support kids in hospitals and libraries.
Perfect for toddlers learning their letters, this great little book uses small brightly colored creatures and funny sayings to help teach kids their ABC’s. From “Ashley who’s always asleep” to “Zeke, who escaped from the zoo,” your little ones will love the charming quirkiness of all the ABC creatures. Flip through the pages at your own pace and enjoy the simplicity of this educational app.
Check out the ABC by Paul McDougall app for $0.99 in the App Store now and support a good cause at the same time!
I love to read books with my kids and eBooks are something relatively new for us. Since the release of the iPad, we’ve read a number of books together and really enjoyed it. Maggie and the Trouble with Monkeys is an app we all had fun reading and playing.
This interactive children’s app has a cute story, fun fonts and colorful illustrations. Join Maggie, a bright and imaginative five and a half year old, in her latest adventure. She’s got a little monkey that makes her life extremely difficult and causes lots of trouble. He does everything from eat all the cookies in the cookie jar to get mud on her new dress. What will she do? Will Maggie learn to love a monkey after all? I don’t want to spoil the ending, so you’ll have to buy the app to find out.
Enjoy this 22 page (11 screen) book app with your kids today. Maggie and the Trouble with Monkeys is available in the App Store for $4.99.
The popularity of Kindles, iPads and Nooks is driving the sales of eBooks continuously higher and Amazon recently announced the Kindle eBook format has just overtaken the hardcover format in Amazon book sales.
iPad sales are continuing to go strong and according to Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Amazon’s Kindle sales are higher too.
We’ve reached a tipping point with the new price of Kindle–the growth rate of Kindle device unit sales has tripled since we lowered the price from $259 to $189.
Higher Kindle sales are not the sole reason for Amazon’s increase in eBook sales. The cross platform Kindle app for devices like the iPad, iPod Touch, BlackBerry and PC, also contributes to the increase. Obviously, the more devices running the Kindle app, the better the eBook sales for Amazon and as mobile devices continue to play an important role in modern day life, it looks like eBook numbers will climb even higher.
The Association of American Publishers’ latest data reports eBook sales grew 163% in the month of May and 207% year-to-date through May. In addition, Hachette Book Group recently released eBook numbers for author James Patterson at 1.14 million. With impressive eBook sales numbers like these, Amazon, Apple and Barnes & Noble will certainly benefit.
One of the best loved children’s books of all time is now available for the iPad. Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham was released by Oceanhouse Media and it’s sure to be another hit for them. We’ve reviewed The Cat and the Hat, The Lorax and One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish in past posts and loved them all.
The iPad version of Green Eggs and Ham takes the whimsical text and artwork from Dr. Seuss and turns it into something magical for kids of all ages. Features for this book include:
Don’t miss out on the latest Dr. Seuss creation! It’s available in the App Store for $3.99.
Looking for a good book to snuggle up with this weekend? Download the new Borders App for your iPad and you’ll have access to five top-selling books for FREE! In celebration of the successful launch of the Borders App and eBook store, Borders customers will have access to free titles as well as exclusive content (Chapter 6) from Danielle Steele’s novel Legacy, due to be released on September 28th.
Free titles include:
With the popularity of eBooks and eReaders on the rise, Borders is “committed to giving our customers the best possible value in digital books, independent of the device,” according to CEO Mike Edwards.
Traditional story telling meets modern technology in The Little Mermaid and other stories by Hans Christian Andersen iPad app. Released by Game Collage last Friday, this beautiful new app is currently featured in “New and Noteworthy” in the App Store.
Parents and children alike will have fun reading this collection of three of Hans Christian Andersen’s best loved titles. Whether you swim through the seas in The Little Mermaid, laugh at the emperor in Emperor’s New Clothes or follow the little snails in The Happy Family, you’re sure to enjoy these timeless classics and digitally re-mastered illustrations. Sixty-five colorful pages and nearly 40 interactive objects placed throughout the stories provide a modern twist as you light up the night sky with fireworks, move a needle and thread, play with snails and much more.
If you’re looking for a good bedtime story to read to your kids or grandkids, give The Little Mermaid and other stories by Hans Christian Andersen a try. It’s available in the App Store now for $8.99.
We’ve reported on and read about universities planning to provide full time students with iPads starting with the Fall Semester. So with all those students receiving iPads, plus countless others purchasing them on their own, how will it affect college textbook sales and bookstores?
According to a report from Fortune, digital content delivery to devices like Apple’s iPad will definitely have an impact on the bottom line. As students arrive on campus this fall, they’ll hit the bookstores in droves to purchase necessities like textbooks and school supplies, but also throw in a few impulse buys, like college shirts and other school paraphernalia. With more and more students choosing ebooks over traditional textbooks, and consequently not visiting the local campus bookstore to make purchases, it’s inevitable that sales revenue will decline.
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