Jacob Lewis is the co-founder and ceo of Figment, a popular online community for teens and young-adults to create, discover, more »

Pan Macmillan is one of the first publishers to make colour illustrated books available on Apple’s iBookstore with new graphic more »

Putting to one side the fact that my 3-year-old daughter knows what an iPad is but can’t brush her teeth without assistance, this is praise indeed for the latest app release from One Hundred Robot

Perhaps in the sequel we can hear about Mr Pinkerton’s newly found freedom and strict diet and exercise regime?

The app is not simply a thing of beauty that’s free, it is also an inventive way for Winged Chariot to showcase visual content online without having to print hundreds of costly catalogues.

Following Jared Shurin’s Comment piece about bookish superfans here is Jared’s interview with author China Miéville. They discuss his fanbase – one of the most active and creative in the world.

How do stories and worlds begun in books develop in the hands of fans? What happens to the audience when the lights go out?

This is a brave attempt at translating a photographic manual to the iPad format and there are some great features, like the way you can move the horizon in a photograph up and down in the frame.

A series of game-books featuring Nancy Drew, the indefatigable teen detective, has been launched for iPhone, iPod and iPad.

The Guardian has launched today, 3 March 2011, a new kids website at guardian.co.uk/childrensbooks. The site includes three reading zones more »