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The book is read brilliantly by award winning actress Emma Fielding. The original Beatrix Potter illustrations were gently animated by Ashley Gerst.

So, if you have young children, or your relatives have kids, or your neighbors have kids, or you know kids, or you see kids on the street, please show them Appley Dapply’s Nursery Rhymes, get their feedback and pass it along to us.

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Well, yes…. as the blog Pimp My Novel points out the parallels between mass paperbacks and ebooks are obvious:

They are both portable, cheap, disposable and widely available.

But pardon us… cannibalize? Not to dismiss the current importance of a publishing house’s sales and distribution chain (oh, ok we will) — in the end doesn’t the epub provide a much higher sales margin? Therefore, wouldn’t a forward thinking publisher be more likely to embrace the sales trends and drop the mass paperback as a format as soon as it reasonably could?

What devices are people using less of? Most everything it seems: “35 percent of tablet owners who also owned a desktop computer reported using their desktop less often or not at all, while 32 percent of those who also owned laptops, said they used their laptop less often or never since acquiring a tablet.”

The iPad is even taking over the ereader population:

“Twenty-seven percent of those who also own eReaders said they use their eReader less often or not at all – the same percentage as those who also own portable media players.”

As the music industry struggles with new ways to distribute and sell music, Sideways and the Rockhall have uncovered an opportunity. Their was a 31% conversion rate among users of the app in the first two weeks.

As evolver.fm so nicely put it…”In its first two weeks, the Rock N’ Roll Hall of Fame app for iPhone and iPad has done something remarkable in an industry where most news about music buying is about how people don’t do it anymore: It convinced people to pay for music.”

We’re currently hard at work on another app that will display one of the all-time greats. Stay tuned (so to speak.)

iLounge | Jesse David Hollington

”The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum has released an iOS application based on its Songs That Shaped Rock and Roll exhibit. The app features a multimedia showcase of over 600 songs from the 1920s through to 2006 selected by the museum’s curatorial staff and a number of rock critics and historians as influential in the evolution of rock and roll.”…

Read more here.

Appolicious | Brad Spirrison

” The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame is one of the country’s most glorious cultural institutions and a must-visit destination for anyone who loves Rock & Roll. Of course, it’s not always easy to make the trek to Cleveland in order to understand the roots of rock.”…

Read more here.