RUBICON PUBLISHING & SKYREADER MEDIA BRING BOOKS TO ITUNES
June 6, 2011
TORONTO, ON – Rubicon Publishing is pleased to announce a partnership with SkyReader Media to turn some of their most popular titles into apps for the Apple iPad.
As part of its initial offering, SkyReader Media will launch 30 exciting titles from Rubicon Publishing’s award-winning series of children’s books: TIMELINE, BOLDPRINT Kids Graphic Reader, and BOLDPRINT Graphic Novels series. Each eBook app includes discoverables, animation, sounds effects and music, and text read-aloud.
The first two books available on the SkyReader platform are Robo Buddy and Coyote’s Tale from Rubicon’s BOLDPRINT Kids Graphic Reader series. In the first week, Coyote’s Tale made it to #29 in the Top 100 Paid iPad Apps list in Canada, and Robo Buddy appeared in the Top 100 Paid iPad Apps list in Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and Denmark.
Banana Ninja from BOLDPRINT Graphic Novels and Mars Colony from TIMELINE are set to launch today.