Book Apps

Teaching With Tablets: For Young Readers, It's Interaction vs. Distraction

Kirk Cheyfitz | Posted 03.25.2012

Read More: Education, Apple, Apps, Children's Books, Books, Textbooks, Book Apps, Ipad, Kindle, Teaching, Reading Comprehension, Reading, Etextbooks, Education News

Sticking to retreads makes no use of all the powerful technological innovations now at our command. But creating tablet cartoons has the potential to kill off reading altogether.

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How Will We Read? - The Book Given

C. M. Rubin | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Reading Tablets, Alice's Adventures Underground, Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, How Will We Read?, E-Books, E-Readers, The Future of Books, Alice Pleasance Liddell, Book Apps, The Real Alice in Wonderland, Books News

On November 26, 1864, Lewis Carroll gave my relative, Alice Pleasance Liddell, a book he had written for her. He called the book Alice's Adventures Underground.

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Book Publishers' Last Hope?

guardian.co.uk | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Nursery Rhymes App, Faber, App Store Books, T.S. Eliot, Book Apps, The Waste Land, iPad Book Apps, App Store, Ipad, Books News

How lucrative are iPad book-apps? UK studio Ustwo revealed some figures at Thursday's Futurebook Innovation Workshop conference in London indicating t...

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British Library Launches Classic Book Reading App

BBC News | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Classic Books App, iPad Apps, Book Apps, Charles Dickens, Frankenstein, Oliver Twist, Mary Shelley, British Library Ipad App, Classic Books, Ebooks, Books News

A "treasure trove" of more than 60,000 19th Century books is being made available by the British Library in a new iPad application....

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UK's Biggest Chain About To Fail, Pins Hopes On Social Book Selling App

Publishing Perspectives | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Nook, Barnes & Noble, Book Industry Conference, Social Book Selling App, Book Apps, Bookstore, Anobil, Waterstone, Waterstone's, Waterstone's Bookstore, Amazon, Books News

LONDON: Troubled UK chain Waterstone’s is pinning its hopes on the aNobii app which it officially launches next month....

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Top 20 Facebook Apps For Book Lovers

GalleyCat | Jason Boog on April 24, 2011 6:23 PM | Posted 06.25.2011

Read More: Goodreads, Visual Bookshelf, Weread, Book Facebook Apps, Book Apps, Facebook Apps, Excellent Books, Book Clubs, Facebook, Tumble Books, Yournextread, Books News

Not all Facebook apps are dedicated to Farmville-style social games. Goodreads has the most popular book related app on Facebook, counting more than 1...

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7 Ways eBook Apps Can Help Brick-And-Mortar Bookstores

O'Reilly Radar | Joe Wikert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Iphone, Book Apps, Book Publishing, Kindle App, Kindle, Bookstores, eBook Apps, Books News

My iPhone is always with me when I'm in the bookstore. Many times I've found a book that interests me, I pick it up and browse through it, then pull o...

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The Coolest Book Apps For Reading, Getting Free eBooks And Organizing A Digital Library (PHOTOS)

The Huffington Post | Zoe Triska | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, iPad Book Apps, iPhone Book Apps, Awesome Book Apps, Book Apps, Ibooks, Iphone, App Store, Ipad, Books News

Are book apps books, or something else? It's like being at the birth of a new form. We love books, but these apps are getting pretty cool. Electron...

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Children's Publishers Used To Print Books...

publishersweekly.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nook, Iphone, Kindle, Ereader, Ibook, Barnes and Noble, eBook Apps, Ebook, Amazon Kindle, Book Apps, Children's Book Apps, Ireader, Ibook Apps, Ipad, Books News

Last week we looked at how some adult trade houses view the potential market for apps, finding that most publishers are cautiously moving into this ar...

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Stephen King Compares Buying Physical Books To Stamp Collecting

Wall Street Journal | JEFFREY A. TRACHTENBERG | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Stephen King Ebook, Ebook Stephen King, Stephen King, Ibook, Book Apps, Ereader Stephen King, Horror Books, Ireader, Horror Story, Books News

Stephen King has filled HIS share of printed pages: Since "Carrie" was accepted for publication in the spring of 1973, he has written more than 40 boo...

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Apple Rejects CNET Editor's Book For Racy Content, Author Gets Book Deal

David Carnoy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Self Publishing, Knife Music, Book Publishing, David Carnoy, eBook Publishing, App Store, Book Marketing, Applications, Books, Censorship, Book Apps, iPhone Apps, Ebooks, Racy Language, Mature Themes, Cnet, Iphone 4, Books News

I just wanted to say thanks for a little something Apple did to help a fledgling novelist.

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iPad Apps For Children's Books Show Cool New Possibilities For Publishers

The Wall Street Journal | NICK WINGFIELD | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Children's Books, iPad Apps, Books, Alice for the iPad, Book Apps, iPad Book Apps, iPad Books, The Lorax, Alice in Wonderland, Ipad, Ebooks, Books News

I'm intrigued, though, by the idea that the iPad, and eventually other tablet devices will give rise to a hybrid medium -- call them book apps -- that...

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iPhone eBooks: Competition For Kindle And Nook?

PC World | David Coursey | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Amazon Kindle, Kindle, iPhone Apps, Reading, eBook Apps, Book Apps, Apple Tablet, Iphone, Books, Ebooks, Nook, Ereaders, Books News

Just because a Flurry study found that more book apps than games were developed for the iPhone over the past four months does not mean the Kindle and ...

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Finishing Not-Quite-First

Todd Zuniga | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Opium App, Mcsweeneys, Opium Magazine, iPhone Apps, Opium, Book Apps, Digital Literature, Iphone, Electric Literature, Books, Books News

The thrill of following our app's rise (and eventual slide -- after day four we slipped from the top 100) gave me the chance to seriously eyeball the Books section and really look at what was in there.

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