Exploding iPad and eBook sales create fertile ground for Skyreader’s ambition Toronto – Ottawa, May 8, 2012 – Her books have been featured on The Martha Stewart show, Town & Country Magazine and People.com. Now best-selling children’s author Leslie McGuirk is teaming up with Skyreader Media Inc. to bring Pip the Penguin to the iPad [...]
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Skyreader Media among local Ottawa firms recently signing new agreements.
Excerpt from the Ottawa Business Journal, March 6, 2012, —- Skyreader Media Inc., Corporate Renaissance Group, March Networks, Solacom Technologies and Telesat Holdings Inc. among local firms recently signing new agreements. Skyreader Media Inc., which has a presence in Ottawa, has teamed up with the San Diego Zoo to produce three interactive e-books for children. Tentatively titled Wiggens [...]
The future role of animated ebooks in e-publishing?
Posted on ebookforum.info February 25, 2012 in Animated ebooks, eBook Publishing by eBook-expert I read an article by Vito Pilieci today about the development of standardised software to develop animated ebooks without the need for a specialist developer. The standardisation of production for this format of ebook is a significant step towards what I believe will be the future of ebook publishing [...]
Building eBooks Made Easy
Published in the Ottawa Citizen – Saturday February 27, 2012 – written by Vito Pileici — OTTAWA — Skyreader Media is hoping to jump-start a fresh wave of growth in the world of eBooks. The Toronto company, which is a subsidiary of Skywriter Media & Entertainment, does its software development here in Ottawa and [...]
Skyreader Books Now Available on iBooks
14 of the Skyreader children’s ebooks are now available in iBooks for the iPad and iPhone. See them all here They are the same great stories, available in a different format.
With the Mayor at the Invest Ottawa Launch
The Mayor made a point of stopping by to chat with Skyreader at the Invest Ottawa launch. He also tweeted us later that evening!
12 Things You Need to Know About Publishing Apps
Published originally in Animation Magazine November 2011 Download PDF Version
Norbert Nipkin eBook Featured in Globe and Mail “7 Great Gadgets for Kids” for Holiday 2011
Illustrated by Steve Pilcher, award-winning art director of Shrek 2, Norbert Nipkin was featured as one of The Globe And Mail’s 7 “Great Gadgets for Kids” for holiday 2011.
Skyreader Media Author-in-Residence Featured in Vero Beach Magazine
It’s a good thing Leslie McGuirk refused to believe it when people kept telling her she didn’t have a creative bone in her body. Something inside told her that one day she would prove them wrong. She did, and in a big way. To date Leslie has written and illustrated more than a dozen children’s [...]
Skyreader Media Pacts with San Diego Zoo on New Interactive eBook from Author-In-Residence Leslie McGuirk
Bestselling Children’s Author-Illustrator Leslie McGuirk and Author-Restaurateur Alex von Bidder Join Forces Again for New Adventures of Wiggens at World Famous San Diego Zoo TORONTO – (February 7, 2012) – Having mastered dining etiquette in New York City as told in the bestselling Wiggens Learns His Manners at the Four Seasons Restaurant, Wiggens, the precocious [...]
