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World Book Night in digital – ebooks, apps and…TV 10/03/11

You may know that last Saturday was the inaugural World Book Night, an evening celebrating reading, and doing for adults what World Book Day does for kids.

The BBC devoted a whole evening of programming to World Book Night, there were more than 400 events held across the UK, and a million books were given away. And in case you missed it, BBC2’s flagship arts programme The Culture Show interviewed one of our co-founders, Peter Collingridge, as part of their coverage.

Peter spoke to presenter John Mullan about digital publishing and showed off our Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro app on an iPad. You can watch his section on iPlayer (UK only), and the whole programme is really worth a look.

The Book Stops Here, a literary night run by our publicist Emma Young, was also featured on the show here, and both Peter and Emma were part of the World Book Night party at Royal Festival Hall headlined by Margaret Atwood, where Peter DJed and Emma hosted readings to a crowd of over 1000 people.

World Book Night 2011

Nick Cave appeared at a huge World Book Night event in Trafalgar Square, where he read from Nabokov’s Lolita (at 15.44):

We thought it would be churlish not to remind you of our award-winning Nick Cave app and remind you of the cover of the ebook we created for Lolita last year:


David Nicholl’s One Day, for which we produced an app, was selected as one of the twenty books being given away. And Philip Pullman, whose Northern Lights was also part of the giveaway, spoke to the BBC about World Book Night in Trafalgar Square. We created an app for The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ which you can read all about here.

Both Bunny Munro and The Good Man Jesus are discounted for this week only, over on iTunes.

Last year for World Book Day we created £1.79 apps for all the Quick Reads books. They include titles by Andy McNab, Peter James, Cathy Kelly, and a Dr Who story and are still available.

World Book Night discount 10/03/11

To celebrate World Book Night, we’re dropping the price of two of our most popular apps, Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro and Philip Pullman’s The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ. For the next week The Death of Bunny Munro will be £4.99 and The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ will be £7.99.

Both authors are huge supporters of World Book Night, which was established this year to celebrate reading and do for adults what World Book Day does for kids. Nick Cave appeared at a huge World Book Night event in Trafalgar Square, where he read from Nabokov’s Lolita (at 15.44):

Philip Pullman’s Northern Lights was one of the books given away on World Book Night, and he spoke to the BBC about it in Trafalgar Square:





Buy The Death of Bunny Munro in iTunes.
Buy The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ in iTunes.

Russian Digital Publishing Industry Talk, Non-Fiction Fair Moscow 15/12/10

On 2 December, Enhanced Editions’ co-founder Peter Collingridge led a seminar in Moscow, entitled “Digital Innovation in Publishing”, as part of a joint collaboration between the British Council, the Academia Rossia, the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications, and The London Book Fair.

Peter spoke for about thirty minutes on three topics:

  1. “The 21st Century Landscape in Publishing”: observations on the current environment
  2. “The 21st Century Publishing House”: what we think a digital publishing house looks like
  3. “The 21st Century reader”: insights from our user analytics

before being interviewed by Vladimir Kharitonov , who recently wrote up the exchange (in Russian).

The talk is reproduced below in full.

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Enhanced Editions reading experience, now optimised for your iPad by Craig Mod 01/12/10

We’ve been carefully working on re-engineering and optimising all of our apps to take advantage of the best features of the iPad, and are thrilled to announce the first new releases, now available on the app store. But, not only are these great titles now available, they look something really special as well.

Enhanced Editions are now on the iPad

Jasper Fforde’s The Last Dragonslayer

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Twitter Chatter 11/09/09

Very pleased to see a fair bit of chatter on Twitter (where you can follow us for more updates) about our Bunny Munro app. Here’s just a sample:

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Enhanced Editions in the Press 10/09/09

We’re really pleased to see some recent and very kind mentions of Enhanced Editions and our new Nick Cave / Bunny Munro app in the press – including some of our favourite blogs:

Wired: Hear Nick Cave Read The Death of Bunny Munro

The multiformat release turns the tables on the traditional roles of reader and writer: In the audiovisual versions, Cave drives your emotions where he wants them to go. Readers get inside his head rather than projecting their own ideas on the work.

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Bunny Munro Approved 05/09/09

We’ve just found out that Bunny Munro has finally been approved by the App Review team. More to follow, but right now, you’ll find the Bunny Munro app in all its delights, on the App Store.

This App is available worldwide, so if the above link doesn’t work for you (it should), just search for “Bunny Munro”.

Bunny Munro currently still in review 02/09/09

Thanks everyone for your support. Just a quick update.

The Bunny Munro app is currently in review at Apple. We had hoped to clear the process before yesterday’s iTunes podcast and audiobook went live, and before the Guardian ran a piece about Enhanced iPhone books, but haven’t quite made it.

Still, the book officially comes out on September 9th in the UK, and we’re talking to a lot of people at Apple, all of whom are being really helpful, and hope to resolve this really soon.

More info as soon as we have it.

Podcast of Nick reading from Bunny Munro at the iTunes festival
Audiobook version of Bunny Munro
Guardian piece

Feature: Synched Audio and Text 31/08/09

The iPhone is many things beside a phone of course, and what must be the most-used feature is audio – usually music. And audio impinges heavily on the reading experience as well, whether it’s listening to an album while you’re reading, or making the full transition to an audiobook read in a lively and entertaining style. (The audiobook has been around for many years now, from those huge tape packs you used to buy for long car journeys, through CDs to a new lease of life as mp3s from retailers like Audible and iTunes. The fact that audiobooks frequently outsell the hardback edition of many books is a direct but little-quoted challenge to the persistent idea that the physical, paper book is the only “real” way to read.) (more…)

Feature: Watching Video in an Enhanced Edition 24/08/09

One of the most obvious things you can do in a multimedia ebook is insert video. (more…)

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