Audiobook Pop! To Donate Portion of Sales to Librivox.org

Audiobook Pop!, creator of curated and themed mobile audiobook apps, announced that a portion of all December sales from Audiobook Pop! apps will be donated to Librivox.org, an online digital library of free public domain audiobooks, read by volunteers. Audiobook Pop! apps cost $0.99 and provide hundreds of hours of

First Android App in Google Play! Audiobooks – Austen

Audiobook Pop! audiobook apps are launching in Google Play. Android book lovers unite!
Audiobook Pop! expands its app offering by launching all of its existing iOS apps in Google Play: first out, Audiobooks – Austen. In the coming weeks, all Audiobook Pop! apps will be available for Android.

Free in App Audiobook Downloads on Audiobooks – Tales

Audiobook Pop! expands its iPhone – iPad – iPod app offering. Audiobooks – Tales, an iOS app, will be released September 1st, 2012. Audiobooks – Tales is a compilation of fairy tales and folk tales from around the world, collected from the best audiobooks at Librivox.
In addition

Audiobooks – Tales

A compilation of fairy tales and folk tales from around the world with titles like Grimms’ Fairy Tales, Aesop’s Fables and tales from West Africa, Japan, Canada, and American Indians.

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Attention Chicon 7 (Worldcon) 12′: Sci-Fi App Giveaway

Audiobook Pop! celebrates the opening of Chicon 7, the 70th World Science Fiction Convention, also known as “Worldcon” with a giveaway of Audiobooks – Sci-Fi on August 30 and September 1, 2012.
Audiobook Pop! will make the app free in iTunes. (Android users, please bear with us. We

Attention BlogHer ’12: Free Kids Audiobook App

In celebration of BlogHer ‘12, Audiobook Pop! offers its premier app, Audiobooks For Your Kids, for free in the iTunes store, through August 4, 2012.
A must have iPhone – iPod Touch- iPad app (retina display supported), Audiobooks For Your Kids lets you effortlessly listen to classic children’s

Audiobooks – Austen

Jane Austen full audiobook anthology with titles like Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility and Emma.

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Jane Austen Audiobook Anthology – New release for 2012

Audiobook Pop! (formerly, Audiobooks For Your Kids) expands its iPhone app offering. Audiobooks – Austen, an iOS app, will be released July 21, 2012. Audiobooks – Austen is a Jane Austen audio book anthology, collected from the best audiobooks at Librivox.org. Audiobook Pop! will launch Audiobooks – Fairy Tales/Folk

Donate To Librivox

If you listen to one of our apps, you’re listening to content that was recorded by volunteers through Librivox.org.  It’s an amazing site with thousands of public domain audiobooks in several languages — all for free.  We took it the extra step of shaping the audiobooks around themes, choosing

Audiobooks For Your Kids Announces Sci-Fi App and New Company Name – Audiobook Pop!

Audiobook Pop! will carry Audiobooks For Your Kids and the upcoming ‘Audiobooks – Sci Fi’ — over 30 of the best narrated science fiction audiobooks from Librivox. With narrators like Jules Verne, Kurt Vonnegut and Edgar Rice Burroughs, you’ll get hours of science fiction for only $0.99.
Audiobook Pop! was

Audiobooks – Sci Fi

This collection includes more than 30 vintage Science Fiction audiobooks from authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. Beam Piper and Jules Verne.

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iPhone-iPad-iPod Touch Ver. 1.3 – Pause Bug Fixed

Audiobooks For Your Kids went live with the most updated version of its educational children’s iPhone app, Audiobooks For Your Kids. A persistent “pause” bug has been fixed.
Continuing with the same easy-to-use interface, Audiobooks for Your Kids iPhone app gives you classic children’s literature like The Jungle Book,

Do You Really Want 20,000 Books?

 
Most people don’t have the time or patience to figure out what to listen to on Librivox.  The collection is so vast, after a few disappointing tries to get a solid narrator, it’s easy to throw in the towel.
Just because it’s a great book does not make it

Reviews: Audio Mix by Myles McDonnell

From You Know, For Kids | Audio Mix by Myles McDonnell
The categories of kids’ entertainment (as of all entertainment, I guess) are blurring these days. I’ve covered audiobooks before, and I’ve covered the amazing variety of out-of-copyright (and thus free or extremely inexpensive) online books, and I’ve covered iPhone/iPad

Tutorial: How to Update “Audiobooks For Your Kids” app or any iTunes app!

Here’s how to do it from your mobile device (images taken with an iPhone):
Step 1
Open your mobile device, find and select the “App Store” icon. If you haven’t updated Audiobooks for Your Kids, you will see a number circled in red on the top right corner. The number

RoadTrip for Families: Audiobooks For Your Kids (equals) Sanity On the Open Road

This guest post is one mom’s mission to create an easy to use app to use during road trips – or any time your kids need to be quiet and unwind.
I’m the kind of person who went to the epidural lecture when I was a mere 4 months pregnant

Tutorial: How To Rate Us In App Store

SHOUT IT OUT TO THE WORLD! I ? AUDIOBOOKS FOR YOUR KIDS! We have received some delightful emails from our happy customers, so… why don’t you make a commitment and rate us in the iTunes store. We’ve been together long enough… Here’s how to do it from your mobile device (images taken with an iPhone):

How To Read a Book You Don’t Want to Read

The always brilliant Jim Trelease has a You Tube video about How To Read a Book You Don’t Want to Read. Seriously worth checking out.

Follow Audiobook Pop! on Twitter and Facebook

If you’re reading our blog, we have to figure that you like us. Yes? Make it official! Go to our Facebook page and like us there. That way, you’ll be able to connect with the ever-growing community of people who use Audiobooks For Your Kids. When we add new features

Record an audio book on Librivox for Audiobooks For Your Kids

 
What do you think of the narrators on Librivox / Audiobooks For Your Kids app? Some great, some not so great? Maybe you could do better? Maybe your kids
could do better? Why don’t you consider recording a book for librivox?
Even if there is already a version of

Smart Kids Listen to Audiobooks

Back to the idea of making your kids smarter. I found a few interesting links about the topic. One in Salon: “Book owners have smarter kids – When it comes to your children, the books in your house matter more than your education or income”

Review: Maggie O’Mara for KTVB.COM

by Maggie O’Mara | March 29, 2011 | View article
Boise mom creates iPhone app
Last week, I got an e-mail from a Boise mom named Elizabeth Rodgers. She created a cool iPhone app with a friend of hers for kids! I thought I would share it with all of

Audiobooks For Your Kids featured in ABC’s ‘Good Morning Live’

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Donate to the American Red Cross For Japan Relief

 
Audiobooks For Your Kids has made a commitment to donate to the American Red Cross for disaster relief to Japan in the wake of the terrible earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster ongoing.  ALL sales from March 22, 2011 to March 29, 2011 will be donated to the American Red

Want to suggest any Librivox titles?

Are there some titles on Librivox that you wish Audiobooks For Your Kids would carry on our app? Let us know! Just send us an email or go to our Contact page on our website. Takes two seconds. You’ll be glad you did.

Feedback: How’s the app working for you?

How’s the app working for you? Great? Not so great? Please let us know! You can go to the contact page on our website and give us feedback. Or, you could email us. We will respond.

Review: The iPhone Mom

March 1, 2011 | View article “I do love the concept of audiobooks though and the way they tap into your imagination as you listen to the narrated text. which is exactly why I’m excited to introduce my children to this app – Audiobooks for Your Kids.”

New and Noteworthy in iTunes App store

Thank you to iTunes app store for putting our free app in the “New and Noteworthy” books category

We Make Your Kids Smarter

The tagline for Audiobooks For Your Kids, “We Make Your Kids Smarter”, comes from an idea put forth by Jim Trelease in his great book, The Read Aloud Handbook, which I would recommend to anyone interested in raising a reader. The Cliffs’ Notes version (ah, the irony) of his

Audiobooks For Your Kids

This collection includes more than 30 classic children’s audiobooks. Rediscover classics like Little Women, Jungle Book and Andersen’s Fairy Tales.

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Download from Google Play! for Android

Download from Amazon App Store for Android

Audiobooks – Kids (free)

This free sampler includes 5 classic children’s audiobooks. Just download the stories and you are ready to go.

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Download from Google Play! for Android

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