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Shipping an iPad Children's Book: Soup to Nuts

52 points by mef 15y ago

pkteison 15y ago
Is there a corresponding writeup somewhere? I love hearing about the difficult decisions, and this has some teasers that sound like they'd be interesting stories - especially "fired illustrator over contract dispute", "developers 'need' to start over", and "made appearance in costume".
jamesgagan 15y ago
it looks nice - went to buy it but i don't see it in the app store... has it launched? I found quite a few hansel and gretel books so you have some competition.
- mrpollo 15y ago
  Want to buy it but can't find it either, why did the programmers need to change to a 3D Gaming platform? sounds like a good story
- ScottWhigham 15y ago
  Same here. OP - is it under a different title maybe? I tried searching for "4ormat" too and nada.
sixtofour 15y ago
Great timeline design, especially after you recognize how the color captions match the line colors. I would have preferred that the captions were consistently stacked in the same order as their lines though, give you both a color and a positional cue.
sixtofour 15y ago
Oh, typo. http://jessbogart.4ormat.com/selected-pages http://jessbogart.4ormat.com/selected-pages "Gretel jumped on her big brothers bed," s/brothers/brother's/
- PBJ_Publishing 15y ago
  this was fixed but great catch! ;)
tsunamifury 15y ago
http://www.findhg.com/ http://www.findhg.com/ Looks like it hasn't launched yet, although the video said early 2011. Somehow I feel sad, like all the work suddenly stopped and there was no product launch and all that hard work I've observed was lost in the wind. Or maybe I'm just projecting my own pre-launch jitters for my own app.
braveheart2233 15y ago
looks great, must be a lot of work. Definitely want to get your money back on your SEO http://www.google.com/search?q=pb+and+j+publishing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=pb+and+j+publishing&ie=ut... top hit: http://www.pbjpress.com/ http://www.pbjpress.com/ :)
eps 15y ago
Ah! Finally a truly justified use of a horizontally-scrolled website! I thought I would never see one...
PBJ_Publishing 15y ago
Hi there! My name is Jessica, and I'm one of the creators of the Hansel and Gretel app. We are thrilled you guys have taken an interest in our app and my personal portfolio site- it means the world to us. We are experiencing issues with our developers but we're working as hard as we can to get back on track. I would love to keep a conversation going with you though. Feel free to shoot me an email at jess@pbjpublishing.com, and I'll let you know when we finally hit the app store!

52 points by mef 15y ago

Is there a corresponding writeup somewhere? I love hearing about the difficult decisions, and this has some teasers that sound like they'd be interesting stories - especially "fired illustrator over contract dispute", "developers 'need' to start over", and "made appearance in costume".

jamesgagan 15y ago

it looks nice - went to buy it but i don't see it in the app store... has it launched? I found quite a few hansel and gretel books so you have some competition.

mrpollo 15y ago
Want to buy it but can't find it either, why did the programmers need to change to a 3D Gaming platform? sounds like a good story
ScottWhigham 15y ago
Same here. OP - is it under a different title maybe? I tried searching for "4ormat" too and nada.

sixtofour 15y ago

Great timeline design, especially after you recognize how the color captions match the line colors. I would have preferred that the captions were consistently stacked in the same order as their lines though, give you both a color and a positional cue.

sixtofour 15y ago

Oh, typo. http://jessbogart.4ormat.com/selected-pages http://jessbogart.4ormat.com/selected-pages "Gretel jumped on her big brothers bed," s/brothers/brother's/

PBJ_Publishing 15y ago
this was fixed but great catch! ;)

tsunamifury 15y ago

http://www.findhg.com/ http://www.findhg.com/ Looks like it hasn't launched yet, although the video said early 2011. Somehow I feel sad, like all the work suddenly stopped and there was no product launch and all that hard work I've observed was lost in the wind. Or maybe I'm just projecting my own pre-launch jitters for my own app.

braveheart2233 15y ago

looks great, must be a lot of work. Definitely want to get your money back on your SEO http://www.google.com/search?q=pb+and+j+publishing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a http://www.google.com/search?q=pb+and+j+publishing&ie=ut... top hit: http://www.pbjpress.com/ http://www.pbjpress.com/ :)

eps 15y ago

Ah! Finally a truly justified use of a horizontally-scrolled website! I thought I would never see one...

PBJ_Publishing 15y ago

Hi there! My name is Jessica, and I'm one of the creators of the Hansel and Gretel app. We are thrilled you guys have taken an interest in our app and my personal portfolio site- it means the world to us. We are experiencing issues with our developers but we're working as hard as we can to get back on track. I would love to keep a conversation going with you though. Feel free to shoot me an email at jess@pbjpublishing.com, and I'll let you know when we finally hit the app store!