When I was a kid I had neighbors with the best, most interesting and exciting book I had ever seen: a comic book version of the Bible. It was easy to read, accessible, probably glossed over some of the finer points, but it got me hooked. The Bible is not renowned the world over as [...]

In this new “book” by author Mike Pettigrew, you can travel along on a journey to explore our past and learn what Earth’s past may mean for our own future. Presented as a standalone audiobook app, Earth Changes And Our Hidden Past features over 90 minutes of spoken text, plus a gallery of photos. The [...]

One of the greatest things about the iOS platform and the App Store in particular is the ability of authors everywhere to not just directly market their books to consumers, but to also add interactive elements in order to draw the reader into the story. For children’s books in particular this gives children’s authors everywhere [...]

Reading comics on a touch screen device is a natural fit, giving you the ability to physically turn pages with the swipe of a finger as well as enabling creative ways to zoom and pan within the panels in order to make reading easier on the smaller screen. Get Your Comic is a recent release [...]

Fans of classic rock, rock memoirs, or first-person accounts of free concerts that end in a stabbing should all find something to like in Sam Cutler’s book You Can’t Always Get What You Want. The iPhone app of the same name is basically the book made into a dedicated app. For less than the price [...]

Being laid up with the flu this past week, my son and I have had a lot of opportunity to sample The Boy Giant by Allan Plenderleith. It is a charming tale of a huge boy that is lonely due to his massive size, but in the end manages to find friendship where he least [...]