New York, U.S.A. — Kids Discover, creator of award-winning reading products for children ages 6-12, announces a New interactive reading experience for kids available now for the iPad.

Kids Discover for iPad is compatible with all generations of the iPad, including the iPad mini, and features interactive 3D models, animations, HD video, audio, high-res photos, and fun activities that will engross kids (and parents) for hours.

“We’ve taken our core mission, which is to create a compelling learning experience for kids, and re-imagined it for the iPad,” says Ted Levine, Director of Digital Development at Kids Discover. “We recognized a need among parents and teachers for highly-interactive educational apps that can get kids excited about reading, so we developed a product that would take advantage of the tactile properties native to iPad while retaining a strong focus on reading and learning.”

To celebrate the launch, Kids Discover is making a complete issue — Galaxies — available for free in the Apple App Store. “We believe that experiencing a full issue is the best way to demonstrate the value of Kids Discover for iPad. Once kids and parents experience Kids Discover in this new format, we’re confident they will want more,” says Levine. “And, as with our print products, there are never any ads, keeping Kids Discover a protected space for children.”

Current titles include Antarctica, Washington, D.C. and Galaxies, while upcoming titles include Ancient China, Simple Machines, Extreme Weather, Lewis & Clark and Cells.

Kids Discover for iPad is available monthly and can be purchased by annual subscription for $19.99 or monthly for $1.99. In-app purchases can also be made for individual titles at $2.99.

For more information visit www.kidsdiscover.com

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Hamburg, Germany — With their first iPad app, the German start-up company Frankbooks enables users to communicate with other readers, as well as with the author or a particular character from the novel via an integrated Facebook plugin. Users can take part in the story and in return join a global reader’s circle within the app – which allows them direct access to the novel’s author.

This new way of social storytelling allows authors to create advanced narrative structures by combining some of their story’s character(s) with interactive Facebook accounts. In addition to this users can benefit from the e-book’s enhanced content (photos, maps, videos).

As well as to readers, the app will also appeal to authors considering similar projects, but who do not want to spend high amounts on programming. Using Frankbooks software, however, they will get the opportunity to participate in the fast-growing market of enhanced e-books at a reasonable price.

“Readers have become used to extra features besides the core text, such as interactivity and social media. Soon they will be a regular part of e-books,” says Frank Habbe, founder of Frankbooks.

The first e-book, Pocket Money, is a novel about a young man who accidentally comes into possession of a bag full of cash. On the run from his pursuers, his journey takes him through Northern Germany

In addition to over 230 photos, maps and links, the app also contains Facebook entries from one of the story’s characters, to which users can post their comments. Pocket Money is available on iTunes – find out more when visiting character Kristina Taschengeld on Facebook.

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McGraw-Hill recently announced the launch of Harrison’s for the iPad, the digital edition of the world’s most influential medical textbook, Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, created exclusively for the world’s most sought after tablet computer, the Apple iPad.

Harrison’s for the iPad was developed in partnership with Inkling, creators of the pre-eminent interactive content platform for the iPad. It leverages the mobility, rich media, and processing power of the iPad to enliven its content, improve speed of reference, and expand the learning experience for clinicians and medical students alike.

The iPad’s state-of-the-art platform and high quality screen resolution enabled the Harrison’s team of editors and contributors to create a new dimension of multimedia embedded in the text. Complete with advanced pedagogical tools, Harrison’s for the iPad brings to life the thought-leading clinical authorship and expertise that has been the hallmark of Harrison’s for more than six decades.

“Harrison’s for the iPad delivers superior, evidence-based medicine into the settings where it is needed most,” said Philip Ruppel, president of McGraw-Hill Professional. “Technology is dramatically changing medical education and how students study and learn and McGraw-Hill is committed to expanding and enhancing our products to meet new needs.”

The entire recently published 18th edition of Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine is captured on Harrison’s for the iPad : 450 chapters, more than 4,000 pages, and the contents of the companion DVD. Complete with more than 100 instructional videos, it also includes interactive diagrams, expandable tables, clinical decision trees, and image-based slide shows, all of which can now be intuitively manipulated on the tablet’s touch screen.

Videos incorporated throughout the edition include:

• Step-by-step tutorials from physicians at Harvard Medical School/Brigham and Women’s Hospital
• The diagnostic approach to neurologic disease, by leading specialists Martin Samuels, MD and Dan Lowenstein, MD, supplement the renowned Harrison’s neurology chapters
• Expert insights and footage from actual patient care in the diagnosis of focal cerebral disorders from Bruce Miller, MD and his team at the UCSF School of Medicine

Harrison’s for the iPad boasts a social learning network built in to the text that enables greater student-to-student and student-to-professor collaboration. As they explore content, students can form study networks, share notes, follow their professors, and create real- time running discussions with other Harrison’s users at medical schools and hospitals around the world.

“Harrison’s for the iPad represents one of the greatest innovations in this textbook’s 60-year history,” said Dan L. Longo, M.D., Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, speaking on behalf of the Board of Editors of Harrison’s Principles of Internal  Medicine. ”The editors are keenly aware that Harrison’s world-class content and thought leadership and Apple’s unprecedented iPad technology have the ability to affect the study and practice of medicine for years to come.”

Harrison’s for the iPad follows Ganong’s Review of Medical Physiology, Pharmacotherapy:  A Pathophysiologic Approach by Joseph DiPiro, and more than 50 other McGraw-Hill textbooks on a variety of disciplines developed for the iPad in conjunction with Inkling. It is available through the Inkling webstore at  www.inkling.com/store/principles-of-internal-medicine-dan-longo-18th/ for $199.99, and individual sections can be purchased for $49.99 each.

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