B&H Sales Conference Reaction to the New Love Dare Apps

4 out 5 PW Daily stories are digital news

Any day now it will be every story. GalleyCat offers three more stories (so far) today with digital implications for the publishing biz.

Hachette Signs with Attributor to Fight Online Piracy PW 6/18/09

Ingram Content Group Gets New Structure PW 6/18/09

Tor Launches Online Bookstore PW 6/18/09

Simon & Schuster Launches Teen Networking Site PW 6/18/09

Audibooks App Nabs Top Spot in Apple App Store GC 6/18/09

Macmillan Digital in the House at #140Conf GC 6/18/09

Publishing Perspectives @ Twitter Boot Camp GC 6/18/09

Click here for a list of all Headlines in Digital Publishing from PW, GalleyCat, and a few from Publisher's Lunch since October 2008.

Love Dare iPhone Apps Launched

B&H Publishing Group has released our first three apps for the iPhone based on the #1 New York Times best seller, The Love Dare (more than 2 million copies sold) from the popular major motion picture, Fireproof. Two of the three have gone live.

As I type this post one of the apps is already ranked #20 of all book apps in the App Store!




The Love Dare: eBook+ contains the full text of the book and the full text of the Holman Christian Standard Bible. All Scripture references in the book have pop-up links to read the verse, and if you click on the pop-up it flips over to that verse in context in the BibleReader. It is an amazing value at $9.99 for the complete book and a complete Bible with a lot of really cool features.
Click here to see a video demo.
Click here to open the iTunes App Store.

The Love Dare: 40 Dares features each of the 40 dares from the book with Scripture reference pop-ups, and a place to check off each completed dare. The app includes the complete text of the King James Version BibleReader; another amazing value for $.99.
Click here to see a video demo.
Click here to open the iTunes App Store.



The Love Dare: Reminders features 365 quotations from the book and Scripture. Each day that you open the app it takes you to the next reminder, or you can scroll through them, or navigate through a table of contents by topic. Users can mark their favorite quotes and/or email any quote, and add their own notes.
Click here to see a video demo.
Click here to open the iTunes App Store.

All three apps have a catalog with links to sites to purchase the books, Bible study, audio book, movie, and links to the Web site, newsletter sign ups, and more.

Special shout out to our development partners, Olive Tree (eBook+ and 40 Dares) and LifeWay Digital (Reminders). Next steps will be launching the Blackberry and Windows Mobile versions.

This accessory is not made to work with iPhone

This message started popping up on my iPhone tonight. Anybody know why or how to turn it off?

I'm not sure what accessory is causing the pop-up. It doesn't seem tied to any particular app.

I've powered off and back on. Didn't matter.

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Any thoughts on what enhancements will come with user names or why user names are important to Facebook or to users (besides squatting on names that may be valuable to people or companies later)?

Facebook user names went live at 11:01 Central time last night. 200,000 names claimed in the first three minutes, 500,000 in the first fifteen minutes. Last count I saw is now up to 3 million.

Digital News from PW, Publishers Lunch & GalleyCat:

Google, iPhone, Palm Pre--a good month for ebooks. 28 new stories since June 1.

HC Children's Does Mobile Promotion for Lauren Conrad Novel PW 6/11/09

Author Reveals Personal Kindle Sales GC 6/11/09

Shortcovers Builds Digital Reader for Palm Pre GC 6/11/09

Twitter Boot Camp Discount GC 6/11/09

Susan Orlean's Tempest in the Twitter Teapot GC 6/11/09

Dzanc Books Launches [Online] Literary Journal GC 6/10/09

Bret Easton Ellis' Twitter Review Career GC 6/10/09

Swiss Army Knife of Dictionaries GC 6/10/09

Conan the Digitalist GC 6/10/09

COOL-ER eBook Reader: the Future of Book Publishing? GC 6/10/09

ScrollMotion Bringing One Million Books to iPhone GC 6/10/09

$99 iPhone Rocks E-Book World GC 6/9/09

The New Gatekeepers GC 6/9/09

Book Stock Watch: Google Gains GC 6/5/09

Textnovel Lets Writers Publish Via Cellphone PW 6/5/09

Dave Eggers Sends Soothing Mass Email GC 6/5/09

Worldwide Seizures of Pirated Books GC 6/5/09

OUP Dictionary Team Dissects Twitter GC 6/5/09

How to Build a Literary iPhone App GC 6/3/09

eNews: Indigo to Launch Their Own Device PL 6/3/09

100 Strangers Co-Write and Publish Book GC 6/2/09

How 25 Million Chinese Readers Read Online GC 6/2/09

Showtime Network Develops Digital Tie-In for Amazon Kindle GC 6/2/09

Blogging Evangelist on the Future of Publishing GC 6/2/09

RAND Lowers e-Book Prices PW 6/2/09

Amazon’s Kindle DX Available June 10 PW 6/2/09

HMH Creates Digital Team PL 6/2/09

Google to Sell Digital Books GC 6/1/09

I am so excited about ebooks!

Ever play the game Don't Tip the Waiter or Don't Spill the Beans? Each player adds another piece in turn until the waiter or the bean pot finally reaches a tipping point and all the pieces come raining down. It feels to me like that is the game we are playing with ebooks and this week another big bean got dropped on the waiter's plate when Google announced plans to sell ebooks. This is some of the most exciting news I've heard all year, and another tipping point toward ebooks becoming a larger part of mainstream culture.

As a related aside: Last weekend at the playground with my girls, I saw a mom sitting comfortably under a shade tree in a lawn chair reading with a Kindle. We talked for a minute and I learned she's an avid reader who never thought about buying a Kindle but received it as a gift from her husband and loves it.