New app lets travelling parents share picture books with kids
A new Australian-made app that lets parents read books with their children when they’re away from home launched on the Apple iTunes store in late December.The Quality Time app, which is available for iPad, with...
Make it snappy: Ana Vivas from Snappyant
Ana Vivas is a publisher at Scholastic Australia and co-director of Snappyant, which creates interactive children’s book apps for tablet technologies. She shares her career journey. I grew up in a creative...
App, app and away: Interactive ebooks and apps for kids
At home and in the classroom, kids are swiping their way through a range of interactive ebooks and apps. Carody Culver spoke to Australian publishers about digital developments in children’s...
Currency Press wins award for app
Currency Press has won the ‘learning and education’ award in the ‘best of tablet’ category at this year’s Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) awards. Currency, together with the creative and...
ILF launches new children’s reading app with Chatty Kidz
The Indigenous Literacy Foundation (ILF) and app developer Chatty Kidz have launched a new children’s reading app. The app, which is available to download for free, was launched on 15 April....
Australian app, ebook win at 2014 Digital Book Awards
An Australian app and ebook have won awards at the 2014 Digital Book Awards, announced in New York on 14 January. Australian app Cowzat! won in the App—Children category. The...
WritingWA releases app based on children’s picture book
WritingWA has released an app based on a children’s picture book as part of an initiative to encourage multi-platform product development.Caterpillar and Butterfly is based on the picture book of...
Random House New Books App now available on Android devices
Random House Australia has released an Android version of its free New Books App, which is now available through the Google Play store in Australia and New Zealand. The app,...
Penguin creates free Teachers’ Academy iPad app
Penguin Australia has created a Penguin Teachers’ Academy app for iPad, which is available as a free download from Apple’s Newsstand and iTunes. The app, which has been designed in-house by...
‘Two Left Feet’ app wins Australian Mobile Award
An app that uses 3D animation to transform Bloomsbury’s children’s book Two Left Feet into a ‘modern-day pop-up book’ has won two awards at the 2013 Australian Mobile Awards. The...
Australian company creates 3D animation app for existing picture books
Australian animation company Resin has created an app that uses 3D animation to transform Bloomsbury’s children’s book Two Left Feet (Adam Stower) into a ‘modern-day pop-up book’. The app, which...
International Library News
Baker & Taylor launches axisReader app for ebook lending Library distributor Baker & Taylor has launched its axisReader app, which allows library patrons to download and read ebooks, reports PaidContent....
SLNSW launches AMAZE Gallery with new app
The State Library of New South Wales (SLNSW) has launched its first new gallery since 1929. The AMAZE Gallery was launched on 11 April with a collection called Dixson 60,...
NLA releases app for digitised sheet music
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has released an iPad app that allows users to browse its collection of digitised sheet music. The Forte app gives users access to the NLA’s...
McInnis appointed ‘Meanjin’ deputy editor; iPad app now available
Catherine McInnis has been appointed deputy editor of Melbourne-based literary journal Meanjin. McInnis, who also works for Melbourne University Publishing in the role of digital marketing assistant, started in the...
Penguin releases two new cooking apps, creates ‘Best of’ series
Penguin Australia has released two new cooking apps, creating a series of ‘Best of’ cooking apps based on recipes from its Lantern cookbook authors. The two new apps, Best of...
Random House to publish ebook, print book of ‘Dandelion’ app
Random House Australia has acquired the rights to an ebook and print book version of Dandelion, a popular anti-bullying app for children that was created by Sydney writer and creative director...
ACCC releases free shopping app
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has created a free shopping app designed to provide advice about returns and warranties to consumers, reports Inside Retail. The ACCC Shopper app,...
International Library News
OverDrive releases app for Nook OverDrive has released a free app for Barnes & Noble’s Nook ereading devices in the US which will allow Nook users to borrow ebook and MP3...
‘The Paris Review’ app launched
The literary journal the Paris Review has launched an app for iPad and iPhone. The application is free and includes access to the current issue in its print format, and...