Valentine's Day Books to Military Families (Press Release)

A Story Before Bed and Sourcebooks Partner to Give Away Bestselling Picture Book to Military Families this Valentine’s Day!

(February 9, 2011)—A Story Before Bed (www.astorybeforebed.com) has given away over 85,000 free recordable children’s eBooks to deployed and deploying parents in the U.S. Armed Forces. These stories, recordable and viewable on the online children’s book service, help keep families connected through long separations.

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, A Story Before Bed is partnering with Sourcebooks to provide the bestselling picture book, I Love You More by Laura Duksta, and illustrated by Karen Keesler for *free* to military subscribers.  The free promotion starts TODAY February 9^th, 2011 (ending Thursday, February 24^th).

I Love You More is a perfect Valentine’s Day gift for a child or a parent, and Sourcebooks and A Story Before Bed are thrilled to make a recording of the book available free to military families. Existing military subscribers can use their regular subscription code to redeem I Love You More recordings through the site. Deployed or deploying military families who have yet to subscribe to our service can head to www.astorybeforebed.com/military to apply for a free subscription.

Thanks to all the military families for their sacrifice and service. We appreciate everything you do and hope this lovely book will help bring joy and love to this Valentine’s Day.

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A Story Before Bed (www.astorybeforebed.com) is the first and only service on the web that lets parents and grandparents record videos of themselves reading children’s books into their webcam. Kids can play back the recordings synchronized with the pages of the digital children’s book as often as they like in their web browser, and even on their iPad or iPhone via the free A Story Before Bed App in the App Store. The library currently has over 250 books for your reading and recording enjoyment and more are being added all the time. Additionally, A Story Before Bed won a Publishing Innovation Award at the recent Digital Book World Conference in New York City in the Children’s category.

Sourcebooks is a forward-thinking, independent publishing house with a passion for books and a dedication to the belief that books change lives.  We are committed to innovative publishing, where every book is personal and every author’s voice has a place.  We are a group of passionate, energetic and enthusiastic book lovers, and we are committed to helping readers experience each book.  Sourcebooks has over 70 employees, publishes over 300 new titles each year, and celebrates their success with 15 New York Times Bestsellers.  Sourcebooks is proud to be the largest woman-owned book publisher in the country.  Visit www.sourcebooks.com for more information, and check out the Sourcebooks blog.

Press Release: Shelf Magazine - including free issue opportunity

www.shelfmediagroup.com
June 15, 2010

SHELF -- A NEW DIGITAL MAGAZINE FOR THE IPAD GENERATION

Shelf Media Group announces the September 1 launch of Shelf, a digital-only monthly magazine featuring the best of small press, university press, and self-published books. Each issue of Shelf will include reviews, author interviews, excerpts, photo essays, and more. Shelf will be distributed via Zinio.com, the world's largest  newsstand, for download on computer, iPhone, or iPad.

"With the advent of the iPad, readers can experience and engage with magazines as never before," says Shelf publisher Margaret Brown. "Shelf maximizes this experience with dynamic design, diverse content, and hotlinks to the authors, publishers, and distributors of the books you'll want to read next."

Adds Shelf editor in chief Kathy Wise: "Shelf is at its core about the joy of discovery. It is that feeling you get after spending an afternoon at an indie bookstore, reading first chapters and finding a mind-blowing new talent, as well as something new and unexpected from a writer you've loved for years. It's about taking that feeling on a plane, on your lunch break, to your best friend's backyard. It's about experiencing the best out-of-the-box books in a graphic, mobile, and tree-friendly way. Shelf is not your mother's literary magazine."

Shelf is offering its first issue for free to the first 10,000 people who friend Shelf Mag on Facebook or email
a request to info@shelfmediagroup.com

UPDATE: You can sign up at the website now: http://www.shelfmediagroup.com/