August 2011

After some fits and starts, we finally have momentum on an iPad app we like and a fall release schedule. Version 1 will be focused on reading/consumption and include a key feature we don’t yet offer on the web: the ability to follow your friends/favorite authors.

I’ve been playing with the interim builds and am impressed. The interactions are slick and the stories look gorgeous. What I’m most jazzed about is how the app crystallizes the idea of Storybird as a real-time publishing platform. You won’t buy a book app that’s ignored two days later. You’ll buy a lifeline to the Storybird community and a never-ending stream of stories and art that changes in tempo and mood day after day.

I’m proud of the work the team is doing and excited to get this into living rooms and classrooms around the world.

Chicago artist and designer Christian Jasckson’s take on minimalist children’s classics. See the set.