Emerging Technology. Online PD: Training your staff without meetings! Come Read With Us! News from the E-Book QuickStudy. Research Assistant Meagan Bromley reflects on our most recent time in the field for the Cooney Center’s E-Book QuickStudy.
Find out what our research team has been up to lately as well as how you can get involved in our upcoming follow-up study this week! “Oh yes, I read Miss Spider on the iPad at home, and I play other games on it too.” - 5-year-old boy on the “game” of reading When Sesame Street first began, researchers were interested in ways of encouraging “coviewing” between children audiences and their parents. The belief was that if parents watched the show with their kids and interacted with the reading and counting activities on the screen, children would learn more from the show (and have more fun!). In line with our previous research on coviewing and intergenerational play, the research team at the Joan Ganz Cooney Center wants to get a sense of how interactions between adults and children are taking place when reading electronic books, or e-books. New Stats: Kids Find E-Books ‘Fun And Cool,’ But Teens Are Still Reluctant.
The children’s and young adult e-book market faces special challenges not shared by the adult market, new research shows.
And teens are slow to adopt e-books, in part because they do not see e-books as a social technology and they think there are too many restrictions on sharing digital titles. The new data comes from two online surveys conducted by RR Bowker’s PubTrack Consumer in October and November. Bowker surveys a panel of 20,000 book-buying men, women and teens on an ongoing basis. This data is from two surveys conducted online in October and November 2011 — one of 1,000 parents of children ages 0 to 12, and one of 1,000 13- to 17-year-olds.
It was presented at Publishers Launch Conferences’ “Children’s Publishing Goes Digital” this morning. Market Basics: The overall children’s book market was $3.08 billion in 2010. In Q3 2011, the average price of a YA e-book was $4.72, compared to $11.41 for a YA hardcover and $7.43 for a trade paperback. On This Day, The Award-Winning Wikipedia Reader Articles Finally Goes Universal. The Apple Design Award-winning app Articles, which has long been my Wikipedia reader of choice both on my iPhone and my iPad, has just gotten a pretty neat update.
Wait, make that updates, plural. Just moments ago, two separate updates were pushed by Articles developer Sophiestication Software to the iPhone and iPad editions of the app. Separate, but similar. The update to Articles for iPhone brings the ability to share articles on Twitter and add the current article to the in-app “Read Later” queue. Also, it introduces a URL scheme for searching Wikipedia via Articles, which should work nicely with Launch Center Pro. Search for “Art” by content on the english Wikipedia: x- for “Mona Lisa” by title on the german Wikipedia: x- for “hokusai” with the currently selected search options: x- As for the update to Articles for iPad, it also brings all of the above improvements … and then some. Also newly added to Articles for iPad is the ability to search text within an article. On This Day …