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You MARKET, just as you do with your websites online. Notice one of the sections in my app image to the left is the “Library,” where I sell my books. (In-depth marketing capabilities later in this series.)
Apps gather the contact information of those downloading your app. You should make frequent contact with them, mounting sales campaigns, posting your schedule of appearances etc. This is similar to the newsletter subscription on your website where you capture email addresses, except it nearly eliminates the need to sign up because capturing phone numbers can be automatic. This captured info can and should be used repeatedly for inexpensive marketing campaigns.
And the smartphones offer exceptional marketing technologies. Just one example is LBS (location based search) where a smartphone will alert its owner when they are close to your location. Imagine you have a book signing in the city. You can do an LBS campaign so that users’ phones will tell them they are close to the bookstore at the time of your appearance and suggest they drop by. This gathers followers spontaneously, who just happened to be in the vicinity. Your blog could never do that! (More marketing capabilities covered in other series articles.)
Where Do I Find Apps Marketplaces
Apps are only available in the iTunes Store (for iPhones) and the Apps Marketplace (for Androids and compatibles). These marketplaces are only accessible from your iPhone or Android/compatible smartphones.
The purpose of the apps marketplace basically is to take the place of internet search engines, which are of little use to smartphone users because they lead only to internet websites that are incompatible with smartphones (this incompatibility covered in an upcoming series article.) The apps marketplaces lead only to apps, which are created specifically for smartphone use.
If you have any further questions, please leave them in the comment section below. I’d love to hear your thoughts.
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RECAP: Why Do I Need My Own App?
The iTunes Store (for iPhones) and Apps Marketplace (Androids & compatible) is mostly ignored by authors. This is a mistake. It’s a market of billions of users who probably won’t ever see your website/blo
If you’re looking for a pre-schooler friendly app that will get your child into the writing spirit, then you’ve got a winner with Write On. Baccizrecognizes the importance of learning the proper strokes in forming letters. This will make for fewer frustrations down the line for you and your children when they start writing prolifically later on. The app does a fantastic job of modeling how each letter is formed and allowing for your child to practice his or her writing in a very enjoyable setting. Write On gives your child a wonderful head start in learning their letters, sounds, and animals. Both you and your child will start pre-school with more confidence, knowing that they’ve already mastered the alphabet.
Learning Block Letters
Write On Homescreen
The homescreen has the whole alphabet displayed with inviting wide-eyed animals next to their corresponding letters. Kids LOVE animals, and these animals are very appealing to the eyes. Tapping on the speaker icon will play a wonderful rendition of the alphabet song, which your child will be sure to play and sing along to again and again and again. The letters are highlighted as the song is sung, so your child can learn each letter in no time. Tapping each individual letter will take your child to the handwriting page introducing that letter, its beginning sound, and an animal that begins with that letter. (A new 99 cent add-on allows you to add 70+ more animals to the app.) A short animation is played when you tap on the animals. If you tap on the letters (upper-case and lower-case), it will announce the letter, the sound, and will also demonstrate how to write it. Your child can trace the letters in blue, green, red, or yellow. If you have a stylus, it will give your child an even better feel of writing the letters and words. The eraser serves as an undo button. There is even an option to learn the cursive letters! Young children appreciate the “sophisticated” letters, too.
FlyingBooks Reader is a terrific interactive e-book reader for kids with many cool additional features (and more to come in the very near future). It allows you to create different personal profiles so one e-book can be read aloud and recorded by many different narrators. So, if you’re away on a trip, or if the grandparents are not in town, your child can still feel that bond of reading with loved ones. Better yet, if you’re on a road trip and you have the iPad in your hands, you can listen to recordings of your child reading to you! Another feature your child will love is the ability to create your own books with the photos from your iPad Camera Roll or you can take live shots with your iPad camera and put them right into a book. You can also add text and record your voice(s), too. Cool, right?
FlyingBooks e-store
Create Your Own Books!
Record your own narration!
In terms of book choices, the FlyingBooks store currently offers over 40 books, which are labeled with recommended age levels. More and more books are being added, as they are getting a great response from talented and passionate writers from all over the world. Currently, the book narrations can be heard in English, German, French, and Spanish. Another great feature is that you can see a short trailer of each book when you tap on it. You could also download a demo of the book, which lets you preview and listen to a few pages, so you and your child can decide if the story is a right fit for you. Each book costs $2.99. There are some discounted bundles available, too. In the coming weeks, mini puzzles will be offered for each book to encourage active learning, along with coloring pages. There will also be an auto-play option on the read-to-me feature to make it easier for the little ones.
The FlyingBooks app is a FREE download, so I highly recommend you give it a try. Go ahead. Create a book. Download a demo. Record yourself. Record your child. Let the joy of reading begin!
3 Comments on iPad Kids App Review: FlyingBooks Reader, last added: 2/28/2012
At $6.99, Don’t Let the Pigeon Run This App! by Mo Willems, is one of the more expensive apps for kids out there, but if your child’s a fan (like mine) of Mo Willems and his books, then this app is worth every one of your 699 pennies.
This app was perfect for my five-year-old (recommended for ages 3-7), as he was able to draw the pigeon with guided help from Mo Willems, record himself by answering some questions, and listen to his words being incorporated into a quirky animated story again and again and again. Kids love that. Basically, the story is about the pigeon wanting to do something, while the audience keeps saying a resounding, “NO!” This reminded me a lot of Sesame Street, and it turns out that Mo Willems worked there once upon a time. The plotline is basically the same each time, but there are various points in the story where words are substituted, much like Mad Libs, so the content changes.
There are three levels of interactions with the story. The first level (Egg) will play a random version of the story, with or without the text. All the word substitutions allow for many different versions of the same storyline. The second level (Chick) allows you to choose a food, a number, a game, character, a stinky thing, and something you won’t allow the pigeon to do. These choices also vary. After recording your name, the story plays with the choices you made incorporated into the story. The third level (Big Pigeon) allows you to personally record answers to questions (similar to level 2), and then plays the story incorporating the recorded clips. In this level, you can choose to save up to six recorded stories at a time.
My son also loved that he could just draw a black and white drawing on his own and save it to the iPad. The last saved drawing is also incorporated into the story. How cool is that? You and your child might also enjoy shaking the pigeon, as long as you like.
Here’s my son’ take on the app…
$6.99? Worth it.
Renny Fong has been an educator for over 15 years, teaching pre-kindergarten through fifth grade; he currently teaches technology. His wife and his five-year-old son are his biggest joy and inspiration. He started his blog, TimeOutDad, in September 2009 and has been a contributor to Book Dads since 2010 and KidZui’s blog since May 2011.
3 Comments on iPad Kids App Review: Don’t Let the Pigeon Run This App!, last added: 11/21/2011
What a great concept. Kudos to Mo Willems, as I’m sure this app will be widely popular. And thanks, Renny and Renny’s son, for such a great review!
Renny said, on 11/21/2011 7:33:00 AM
Thanks so much, Kerry. It amazes me what kids are able to do with technology, now. Yes, Mo Willems definitely knows how to entertain and makes literacy fun and engaging!
Amazon.com has launched a free app enabling students to trade used textbooks, while Barnes & Noble has expanded sales of its Nook e-reader to more than 630 of its college bookstores.
Amazon Student, an application for iPhone and iPod touch devices, allows users to trade their old textbooks, plus videos, games and other products, in return for Amazon giftcards. The app offers instant price checks, whereby users will be able to scan barcodes from textbooks in a bookstore, to compare prices.
If you have not made time to read Patrick Carman's multimedia books, I would highly suggest doing so. Patrick Carman is committed to creating multimedia books that hook readers and keep them reading. He has really done some amazing work and he has created some great stories that use so many types of media. The first book I read was SKELETON CREEK. I reviewed it on the blog right away and was excited to see how seamlessly Carman had integrated the various forms of media. This series has been hugely popular in the library since its publication. The newer series that Carman created is the TRACKERS series. This one was more of a spy novel and I reviewed the first book in the series on the blog last year.
Patrick Carman's new project is very exciting. He has created a series of short stories called 3:15. These stories require that you LISTEN, READ AND WATCH. This 3:15 series is published as an APP. The first episode, "Buried Treasure" has been released. There is a new episode due to be released every 2 weeks through summer. Then Season 2 Begins with more episodes. If you enjoyed Jon Scieszka's EXQUISITE CORPSE ADVENTURE creation, where you wait for a new online episode to be released, this follows a similar idea. One big difference in this and The Exquisite Corpse is that each episode in 3:15 is a stand alone story. The first episode is free and the second episode of 3:15 is due out tomorrow--March 29. It is called, "Reflecting Pool". It sounds like all of the stories will be published in a book this coming fall from Scholastic. Lots of ways for kids to discover these stories. I love that about Carman-he seems to be committed to giving kids many ways into reading.
A 20+ page text tells most of the story and leads the reader to the video ending.
I spent some time with the first episode, "Buried
2 Comments on 3:15 APP LISTEN-READ-WATCH, last added: 3/28/2011
Must Get i-Phone! That app sounds so cool. I'll bet my granddaughter would love it, too. I'm giving away a copy of Kristin Hannah's "Night Road" this week if you're interested ...
A book I illustrated, The Adventures of Cali, by Michele Lallouz Fisher has just been released as an iPad/iPhone App. I don't think the book is still available, but I am sure you will love the story in this form. You can read along or hear the story, whichever you prefer. When you see how Zachary transports little Cali the Caterpillar home from California to Florida you will certainly be smiling if not laughing.
1 Comments on The Adventures of Cali is now an APP, last added: 11/2/2010
Name: Poem Flow
Platform: iPhone (OS 3 or later), iPad, iPod Touch
Cost: ranges from $0.99 to $2.99
POEM FLOW is an app available for the iPhone (requires OS 3 or later), iPod Touch, and iPad. It was one of the first apps I ever downloaded to my iPod Touch several years ago. After all, I am a former English teacher, one who recalls her own students’ distaste for all things poetic back in the 80s and 90s when I was teaching middle school (and I doubt that has changed much since then either).
app on iPod Touch
POEM FLOW provides new poems each day for your player. Three month subscriptions are less than a dollar and will net you 2100 poems. Subscribe for larger packages and receive 1365 poems ($1.99) or 3365 poems ($2.99). Each poem “flows” across the screen, one line fading into the next and the next as the poem unfolds.
poem begins to appear on screen
Why this app you might ask? In terms of introducing teens to poetry, this is one of the best methods I can think of. Instead of confronting poems flat on a single page, readers will seen them glide effortlessly line by line, emphasizing the rhythm of the language of poetry. Have POEM FLOW running on one of the computers in or near the teen area. Attach a player to an LCD projector and have a poem flow as your TAG members are gathering for a meeting. Share the app one-on-one (always the best approach for a poem from my perspective). Encourage English teachers to have a look at POEM FLOW for use in the classroom, too. Once students get the hang of POEM FLOW, they can create their own flows from original poems using Prezi or Power Point or other programs.
I worked on a pretty cool project earlier this year that is now out- an iPhone/iPad app for HarperCollins Publishers calledABC Song. I did the art for it and they did an amazing job of bringing my art to life. It is pretty cool to see my art animated.
Some screen shots:
To see a preview, please check it out over at Curious Puppy!
**Its only $0.99 and you can download it over at iTunes here.** It will keep your little ones entertained. The singalong works great but I found the game part to be a little buggy, hopefully that will be fixed soon enough.
I'm thrilled to be part of something like this, and look forward to doing more interactive e-books, apps, and the like. It is definitely where the future is headed.
13 Comments on Art for iPhone/iPad app- ABC Song, last added: 8/11/2010
OH my goodness... this is so cool!!! I love it!! Your style is so perfect for this Jannie!. What does it feel to see your characters moving and alive? Awww what a great feeling that must be. Congratulations!!!!
PC and IPhone app. I thought I’d forward this to you in case you haven’t seen it. The free Kindle for PC download is another great option for readers who prefer digital versions of the Wayfinder. Readers who own iPhones can also download a free Kindle app. This is one of my favorite apps. I’ve read several entire books on my iPhone this way.
Everything is in-sync. The Kindle’s “whisper-sync technology” automatically saves a reader’s place when he/she finishes reading, and it synchronizes among all Kindle reading platforms. So, if a mother begins reading The Wayfinder on a PC, she can continue reading on her iPhone while she waits for her kids to finish soccer practice. She won’t even have to try to remember what page she read last; Kindle will keep track for her!
I like the fact that a reader doesn’t need to purchase a Kindle device in order to read books on a PC or iPhone. Hooray for more reading options!
I’ll have to load the Kindle PC on my netbook! Thanks for the tip, Sherrie
OUP USA President Tim Barton has published a detailed overview and position statement regarding the AAP/Authors Guild Settlement with Google which can be found here (warning, subscription site). Below is a brief excerpt from the piece.
“…What once seemed at least debatable has now become irrefutable: If it’s not online, it’s invisible. While increasing numbers of long-out-of-date, public-domain books are now fully and freely available to anyone with a browser, the vast majority of the scholarship published in book form over the last 80 years is today largely overlooked by students, who limit their research to what can be discovered on the Internet.
For most books published in the last 10 years or so, the picture is more heartening: University libraries provide students and scholars with access to a fair number of those works via services purchased directly from publishers and aggregators. Excerpts can often be viewed online free (but only as much as is allowed by publishers, with an eye toward generating sales). And many titles are available as e-books. Nonetheless, the vast majority of the scholarship published since 1923 (the date before which titles are in the public domain in the United States) is now effectively out of reach to the modern student.
As one of the world’s most prolific scholarly publishers, Oxford views as a core expression of its mission — and the responsibility of all scholarly publishers — the reactivation of publications long sidelined by the restrictions of a print-only existence….”
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So you want to get started creating your art digitally, but somehow that humongous software price tag is holding you back?
Here are two THREE vector app solutions I found just for you:
NeoOffice Draw (FREE): This is part of a family of open-source office apps that work on Windows, Mac, and Linux machines. The drawing application is basic, but it does everything I need to. It’s free to download, but if you like it I highly recommend donating so they can keep developing new versions.
VectorDesigner ($70): This is an excellent value. From a company called Tweakersoft, this app does everything I need to create simple vector graphics. It has some nice effects, too.
InkScape (FREE): I did not have this in the post when I first published it, so I’m correcting the error! InkScape is another open-source app that runs on Mac, Windows, Linux, and there’s even an “unofficial” Fedora version out there.
I work in the Adobe Design Suites on a Mac. I started years ago using CorelDraw on a Windows machine. I sometimes dip my virtual pen into the well of an Ubuntu machine (because I’m geeky like that).
One of the things I’ve learned over the years since is that the tool is not the most important thing in creating artwork.
It’s your imagination. That’s free.
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Apps gather the contact information of those downloading your app. You should make frequent contact with them, mounting sales campaigns, posting your schedule of appearances etc. This is similar to the newsletter subscription on your website where you capture email addresses, except it nearly eliminates the need to sign up because capturing phone numbers can be automatic. This captured info can and should be used repeatedly for inexpensive marketing campaigns.
Apps are only available in the iTunes Store (for iPhones) and the Apps Marketplace (for Androids and compatibles). These marketplaces are only accessible from your iPhone or Android/compatible smartphones.
The iTunes Store (for iPhones) and Apps Marketplace (Androids & compatible) is mostly ignored by authors. This is a mistake. It’s a market of billions of users who probably won’t ever see your website/blo
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