Category: AppBooks


Cooking with Poo

Posted on May 18th, by Liam in AppBooks, Blog, Digital Books, ePub. No Comments

Cooking with Poo by Saiyuud Diwong (aka Poo — Thai for crab and a ‘nickname’) and published by Urban Neighbours of Hope is a fixed-layout iBook available for the iPad and iPhone.



The Waterhole by Graeme Base

Posted on April 26th, by Liam in AppBooks, Apps, iPad Apps, iPhone Apps. No Comments

The Waterhole by Graeme Base is the second app we have produced for The Base Factory. Upon release, the iPad version was featured on the Australian store. It reached #1 in iPad Book Apps and #14 overall in the Australian store and was featured on the iPad homepage.



Chocalicious

Posted on February 10th, by Liam in AppBooks, Blog, ePub. No Comments

Choca­licious by Kim McCosker is the first in a series of new mini iBooks from 4 Ingredients and AppBooks. Choca­licious is a fixed-layout iBook available for iPad, iPhone and iPod touch from the iBookstore (if your looking for it on your iPhone you need to use the iBooks app!).



4 Ingredients app updated

Posted on February 10th, by Liam in AppBooks, Blog, iPhone, iPhone Apps, Portfolio. No Comments

The 4 Ingredients app has been updated. It is a complete rewrite of the original app. Since release in early 2009, 4 Ingredients has been in the top 25 of iPhone lifestyle and is consistently the most popular cooking app on the iPhone in Australia.



Animalia for iPad updated

Posted on February 10th, by Liam in AppBooks, Blog, iPad, iPad Apps, Portfolio. No Comments

Animalia for iPad has been updated with two new sections and 100% more content.



4 Ingredients iPhone app

Posted on November 12th, by Liam in AppBooks, iPhone Apps, Portfolio. No Comments

The 4 Ingredients iPhone app includes more than 400 recipes. To date the print version of 4 Ingredients has sold more than a million copies and has now come to the iPhone and iPod Touch.



Animalia for iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch

Posted on August 29th, by Liam in AppBooks, Blog, iPad, iPad Apps, iPhone Apps, Portfolio. 1 Comment

New AppBook ‘Animalia for iPad’ based on the much loved children’s book by Graeme Base is now available on the iTunes store.

New and Noteworthy’ iPad app in the US and Canada. Feature tiles in Australia and New Zealand.

September 2010: #2 iPad app in Australia. #1 in iPad Books in the US, Canada and Australia. Top 10 iPad Book in 19 countries. Top 100 in 50 countries.

Animalia’ for iPhone and iPod Touch also now available.

For more information, visit www.appbooks.com



Digital Books: the problem of a bad inheritance

Posted on April 29th, by Liam in AppBooks, Blog, iPad. 2 comments

Something has been bugging me lately. It seems that in our enthusiasm for digital books we have forgotten that actually reading them is important. Even Apple seem to have forgotten this when they made iBooks for the iPad.

I was disap­pointed to find that iBooks only give us a choice of 5 fonts, despite presenting books in a way that can only be for reading.

Digital books are failing us. Why? Because they are inheriting their style and presentation from websites.

When I was on dial up and it took a long time to load a single page of a website, I preferred that the images were heavily compressed and didn’t care what font the text was in, just that I could read it right away. But now that I have 3G and spend hours on the internet each day, I am much more … Read More »




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