March 2nd – Dr. Seuss' birthday – and Read Across America day!! To celebrate, we are giving away 25% off any and every book on our MobiStories site, through the MONTH OF MARCH!! Just enter READ25 into the Coupon Code box at checkout to get your discount. Read Across America is a nationwide event organized [...]
Just when you think your wrists may break from all the shoveling and you swear you're moving to warmer climes ASAP, snuggle up with your little one and remember the joys of "Winter": Coming Soon in the iTunes App Store!
Thoughts from our recent event meeting Philly area moms and introducing them to MobiStories: Lunch & a playdate sponsored by mobistories | Tablet Videos.
We at MobiStories have been creating children’s picture books digitally for a few years now, first exclusively as computer downloads and lately as both downloads for home computers and as apps for iPhones/iPads. With the glut of app development lately, especially upon the release of the iPad, much has been made of late regarding the question: “What [...]
March 2nd – Dr. Seuss' birthday – and Read Across America day!! To celebrate, we are giving away 25% off any and every book on our MobiStories site, through the MONTH OF MARCH!! Just enter READ25 into the Coupon Code box at checkout to get your discount. Read Across America is a nationwide event organized [...]
Just when you think your wrists may break from all the shoveling and you swear you're moving to warmer climes ASAP, snuggle up with your little one and remember the joys of "Winter": Coming Soon in the iTunes App Store!
How adorable is this little 2 year old? And when do you think his mom will get her iPhone back..?? LOL Take a peek at how the littlist "i-" users can't get enough of The Marvelous Toy. I love it when mom, Joey Fortman, shows the iPhone screen to the camera, and he weasels around so [...]
Our newest, most interactive iPhone bookapp to date was recently launched. Here's what folks are saying about : Mike from Crazy Mike's Apps gives it 4 crazy heads saying, "For kids, this is an awesome app! It's an interactive musical book for kids – very cool. MobiStories has a bunch of cool books out there, [...]
We're off, heading to NYC for the nation's largest collective on publishing,Book Expo America. It's funny, in a way…the first time we wandered the many aisles of the Javits Center, the MobiStories team felt somewhat alone. There were plenty of books, publishers, distributors, but nary a digital book to be found. In fact, there were [...]
We're about the kids. The books we choose to develop into digital books and apps are picked on criteria such as "Will this delight and entertain kids" or "Will the children feel engaged and want more?" The MobiStories creative team is always searching for innovative ways to educate, entertain and exercise the brain of kids as [...]
Certainly the kind of thing we have been talking about, and witnessing, as we develop and test our own MobiStories apps, along with their matching download versions for computers…not to mention seeing our own kids' schools integrating iPod carts into curriculum. Check out Fast Company's recent article about smartphones and handheld computers changing the face [...]
At the beginning of the school year my middle schooler marched off the bus and happily announced his school received an "iPod cart." A what?, I asked. A mobile cart of about 15 iPods to be used in science classes. My response to that: AWESOME! Easy for me to say, of course….I'm an app [...]
A recent USA Today article discussed the identification, or labeling (or both?) of the "next" generation. You know – BabyBoomers, GenX, GenY/Millenial kids. Old news. Dubbed the "iGeneration," this latest youth group is wired; some may argue they come hardwired. Experts in the child digital media space call these kids digital natives and much has been made [...]
March 2nd – Dr. Seuss' birthday – and Read Across America day!! To celebrate, we are giving away 25% off any and every book on our MobiStories site, through the MONTH OF MARCH!! Just enter READ25 into the Coupon Code box at checkout to get your discount. Read Across America is a nationwide event organized [...]