App Development
October 21, 2015 at 2:05 pm
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Co. said Wednesday it is launching its Curious World website and updated app, which includes educational videos, games, and ebooks for kids between the ages of 3 and 7. The Boston-based publisher first introduced Curious World in November 2014 with a “simple app” that was free to download and included in-app purchases,…
October 15, 2015 at 11:52 am
With B&N's new Nook Glowlight Plus due to be revealed to the public some time in the next month or so, the retailer has turned its attention to boosting sales. To that end, Barnes & Noble has launched a new discovery feature today called B&N Readouts. Update your mobile device with the latest versions of…
September 29, 2015 at 1:52 pm
Like a mad scientist from one of her futuristic novels, Margaret Atwood is an avid tinkerer who seems willing to experiment with almost any digital technology. She has posted her writing on the free fiction site Wattpad, including some poetry and a zombie novel that she co-wrote. She has published fiction on Twitter, where she…
September 28, 2015 at 11:57 am
When HarperCollins launched an ebookstore on its website last year, it was (and still is) such a mess that the majority of its customers aren't readers but industry insiders checking out the competition. The search is broken, the genre/category pages throw errors, and the store won't actually sell me ebooks. The many issues with HC's…
September 17, 2015 at 2:41 pm
Will the next great novel be nothing more than a series of text messages? Uh, maybe not, but there’s always room to experiment with new formats. That’s what husband-and-wife team Parag Chordia and Prerna Gupta are trying to do with their new startup Telepathic, which is launching its first app, Hooked. Telepathic is also announcing…
September 14, 2015 at 2:29 pm
Scan today’s news and you’ll undoubtedly see plenty of stories about how the majority of content is being consumed on mobile devices. In fact, you’ll probably use your own mobile device when you do that scan. Like many of you, I read all my books on a tablet and most of my short-form content on…
August 27, 2015 at 2:43 pm
BOSTON, Aug. 27, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Cengage Learning today launched the availability of the iOS andAndroid compatible MindTap Mobile app. Developed based on student feedback, MindTap Mobile allows students to access many features of Cengage Learning’s highly successful MindTap e-learning platform directly from their smartphones anytime, anywhere. “MindTap Mobile offers the tools students tell us they…
August 21, 2015 at 3:14 pm
I began Arcadia – a novel conceived and written for an app – over four and a half years ago when a lot of people were musing about digital narrative. After working my way through three publishers, two designers, four sets of coders and a lot of anguish, I am no longer surprised that few…
August 7, 2015 at 2:01 pm
New York is a place known for risk taking, for innovation, for not being satisfied with the status quo. Nowhere is that as evident in the library world as with the New York Public Library, and their current projects to reshape the ebooks in libraries landscape. If you’ve ever tried to borrow ebooks from your…
August 3, 2015 at 2:05 pm
We might have known it wouldn't be long before that low-tech trend of coloring books for adults got a modern makeover. New apps claim to offer the same soothing effects of a physical coloring book in the convenience of an app. A growing trend among adults, coloring books are said to help their users de-stress…
