Posts Tagged ‘Penguin’

Mar

Penguin iPad Books for Kids

Posted by: rettstatt in children's literature, transmedia

From Penguin’s CEO, John Makinson:

We will be embedding audio, video, and gaming into everything we do. The .epub format, which is the standard for ebooks at the present, is designed to support traditional narrative text, but not this cool stuff that we’re now talking about. So for the time being, at least, we’ll be creating a lot of our digital content as applications, to be sold on app stores, in HTML.

Penguin will be selling these “books” not in the Apple bookstore but in the app store. They are more app than book, which brings up an interesting question that people will likely debate for some time: where does one draw the line between an ebook and an app? For book publishers, who are moving by choice or cowpoke across the digital frontier, it’s an important distinction. For young readers, who already consume their stories with a side dish of community and gaming for dessert, this distinction doesn’t matter much.

Tags: ebooks, ipad, Penguin

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Jan

Cybils 2007 Science Fiction & Fantasy Finalists

Posted by: rettstatt in children's literature, fantasy, kidlitosphere

The Cybils finalists for the fantasy/scifi category (which I am judging) were finally announced, so I can post them here. They are divided into two categories, Teen/Young Adult and Elementary/Middle Grade. I won’t be commenting on the books during the judging process (I’ve started reading them already), but at some point this month I’ll write about the Cybils in general for the Blog Carnival of Children’s Literature.

Teen/Young Adult:

Book of a Thousand Days
by Shannon Hale
Bloomsbury USA Children’s Books

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Incarceron
by Catherine Fisher
Hodder Children’s Books (UK)

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