Articles Tagged ‘Nook’
Nickelodeon adds eBook titles to Nook and iBookstore
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / INTERACTIVENew eBook titles from Nickelodeon Publishing are headed to Barnes & Noble’s NOOK Store and Apple’s iBookstore, including a Bubble Guppies title for the first time.
Barnes & Noble signs with major studios for Nook Video content, gives away free apps
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / INTERACTIVE / TVAfter posting a 26% drop in 2012 holiday sales within its Nook division, Barnes & Noble has taken new measures to boost earnings that include signing content licensing partnerships with major Hollywood studios like Lionsgate, MGM and Paramount for the Nook Video platform.
Polaroid enters kids tablet fray
CONSUMER PRODUCTS / INTERACTIVE / RETAILMinneapolis, Minnesota-based Polaroid will introduce a new seven-inch kids tablet designed by Southern Telcom at next week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
Funibooks releases first pop-up eBooks
INTERACTIVE / TVHalifax, Canada-based Huminah Huminah Animation’s new Funibooks division has launched the first pop-up eBooks for the Barnes & Noble Nook tablet based on its animated kids TV series I’m A Dinosaur.
Kidscreened
- A new dynamic duo: Disney and YouTube sign a video deal (The New York Times)
- Wallace and Gromit tell us what’s wrong with the UK’s TV animation industry (BBC)
- Mattel CEO Bob Eckert discusses his holiday wish list for the company (The Wall Street Journal)
- A look at the new Nook (All Things D)
Kidscreened
- Barnes & Noble’s new Nook tablet expected to give the Amazon Fire a run for its money – for less (ComputerWorld)
- Final Harry Potter film does wonders for Time Warner’s third-quarter financials (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Bad, bad parents! Study finds parents encourage their underage kids to sign up on Facebook (Techland)
- US teachers say children enter kindergarten unprepared (MarketWatch)
Kidscreened
- The Nook eReader continues to save the day for bookstore Barnes & Noble (The Wall Street Journal)
- Facebook preps for a facelift – look out for music, video game and movie-sharing on the world’s largest social network (All Things D)
- Pending Toys ‘R’ Us IPO in doubt? (InvestorPlace)
- Rising school meals costs spark worries over nutrition (The Guardian)
The definitive kids ent resource.-
Disney to summer with pirates and princesses -
Jack Sorensen tapped to grow Saban’s mobile games division -
DreamWorks’ Turbo app to shell out US$1 million -
Rovio makes move into game publishing -
Target and DC superheroes get exclusive for the summer -
For Grown-Ups Only: 17 Child Un-Friendly Games That You Should Play
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MIPCOM 2012 - Jake Manion of Aardman Digital