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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…)

The Death of Bunny Munro submitted to App store 10/08/09

Bunny Munro submitted to App storeSorry for the silence. Have had our heads very very far down.

We’ve just submitted Nick Cave’s The Death of Bunny Munro to the app store for review. This is really exciting news – the fruit of a year or more’s labour. (more…)

Welcome to Enhanced Editions 25/07/09

Hello, welcome to Enhanced Editions! We’re really excited that you’ve made it here.

We’ve been in planning, development, and stealth mode for about 13 months. And we’re thrilled to be launching a new company at such an exciting time in publishing. Here’s the headlines about what makes us tick. (more…)