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KiwiTech is a mobile app services firm and was established in January 2009 in Washington DC by the founders of Aptara (formerly TechBooks).
We are now starting up our offices in Noida (Sector 4) and are working with a variety of European clients, including Spanish publishers. Our services include developing mobile (iPhone) apps for our clients.”
KiwiTech develops cutting edge e-book readers for various mobile platforms. We have two distinct e-readers, the existing “Classique Reader” and the upcoming “Quantum Reader”.
“The Quantum Reader will change the way people read books by making the experience more enjoyable and convenient for them,” said Anita Gupta, President of KiwiTech. “Also, Quantum single book apps are discoverable on the iPhone plus allow the ability for publishers to enhance their content with multimedia elements.”
KiwiTech also announced that it collaborated with publisher W.W. Norton & Company to release “The Blind Side” as Quantum’s first customized single ebook application.
Gupta said Quantum represents a critical innovation for KiwiTech, because it uses the ePub format to display text on smartphones.
Quantum allows users to:
The firm collaborates with content providers to distribute premium content for three markets — consumers, associations, and schools – on various smartphone platforms. KiwiTech also works with industry leaders to provide app development services. KiwiTech currently has over 80 apps now available on different platforms (including the iPhone™ and BlackBerry Storm™) and has top 20 apps in several countries and in different languages.
Source: Cervantes.es, Press Release (PDF)
Anita Gupta
Posted via email from Digital Publishing Trends – Semantic Press
“Myebook, which helps users self-publish books online, is flexible with the definition of “book,” allowing text to be mashed up with video and applications. “
Hybrid eBooks will change storytelling via interactive media and “choose your own” adventure.
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Top 300 YP Headers
I came across some interesting data the other day detailing the top 300 yellow page headers for 2006. This list shows you the most popular categories listed in the local phone book, based on the number of total references to a particular category listing.
As you can see, the top 3 categories are:
The data was stuck in a PDF document, so I grabbed it, parsed it and put it into a sortable data table to make it more functional. This data was compiled by the Yellow Pages Association.
Feel free to download the data table in CSV, JSON or XML format. Or download the PDF document if you want a hard copy.
Here is a list of phone book / directory publishers that I have compiled. If you have any others to add, leave a comment and I’ll update the list.
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Source: InformationPages | PARTNERS.