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QBook is an iPhone app for teaching children to read. In fact it allows kids to learn at their own pace, learning through association until they memorise the letter sounds. By letting kids touch the text to hear it, it’s like having a teacher or parent standing at the ready to guide them when they need help. By touching the words and hearing the pronunciation and spelling, kids easily learn the phonics for letters and soon memorize them.

Helping children develop literacy at a young age improves all their learning skills and improves their schooling experience. QBook can be used in guided reading activities to provide a focus to the lesson or activity. Additional languages provided in each QBook can also be used for learning new languages or improving new language comprehension and vocabulary.

QBook - Touch enabled kids ebook reader - Ready for iPad

Kids eBook reader - QBook ready for iPad

Apple has finally revealed their latest creation, the iPad which is sure to change the landscape of ebooks and digital publishing. A cross between an iPhone, iMac and eBook reader - iPad has a 9.7inch screen, weighs 1.5 pounds, is Wi-Fi enabled and claims to have 10 Hours battery life. The enlarged screen you get with with the iPad is surely going to enhance user experience. The words and pictures are going to be bigger, more defined, giving iPad users a unique experience.

QBook has already begun preparing for the iPad with VP of Technology Luke Tomes excited at the prospect and potential. "Our existing QBooks are already running on the iPad simulator and we can’t wait for people to see QBook on a real iPad," he says "It’s the perfect device for children’s books and our QBook titles. Existing QBooks in the app store will work on the iPad and we're already optimising future releases to take full advantage of this industry changing device."

The iPad is sure to improve the experience for users of QBook, giving them the ability to grasp the book and feel it in their hands. iPad and QBook, a match made perfect for children’s books.

What is a QBook?

QBook™ is an interactive read-along digital colour picture book designed by Kiwa Media for young children. Not only is it an ebook and iPhone app, QBook combines a narrators voice with original picture illustrations and touchable text that is synchronised to highlight and sound when the word is touched. There are great puzzles and games to enjoy as well.

Personalize each book with ‘this book belongs to ...
Swipe-to-Read™ to highlight and playback the story at your own pace
Touch-to-Hear™ individual words spoken
Touch-to-Spell™ to hear the letters that spell each and every word
Auto Play to enjoy the narration
Use the iRead™ Function to read and record the story yourself and customize your book
Use the Colour Palette to paint each page and save this to customize your book
Choose the Easy/Hard Word Find puzzle to find words from the story
Choose the Easy/Hard Memory Pairs game and match the picture card pairs
Save your high scores and advance up the levels
Includes the Milly, Molly song

QBook is a great activity for kids of all ages and helps develop reading and comprehension skills. Qbook can also be used as part of a lesson plan or reading strategy and helps children learn spelling and pronunciation.

To download the latest Qbook titles visit the iTune App Store

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The QBook Story

Reading books should always be fun. QBook™ was designed specifically to be an entertaining and engaging way for young children to read digital books. It is a true innovation in digital publishing, that combines the ebook format with the interactiveness of a iPhone.

QBook offers a kinaesthetic approach to reading digital books for children. With QBook we've created a tactile world where young readers can experience great stories and interact with the content. Children can customize each title by reading and recording the story in their own voice and colour and save the illustrations. It’s one way to put children at the centre of each story.

We’ve also included fun games and puzzles using content from the book to keep children engaged. Children should be encouraged to explore the rich content and give them an exciting experience that supports their language and literacy development. Above all, QBooks makes learning fun!

We hope you enjoy QBooks as much as we (and our children) do.

To download the latest QBook titles visit the iTune app store or try our free downloadable ebook Seb's Tail lite.

QBook Technology

QBook™ is a content creation system and provides a framework to bring content into the touch enabled digital marketplace on multiple platforms. Initially available as iPhone apps, with Windows 7 touch enabled content in first quarter 2010.

QBook utilizes many of the patented IP innovations made at Kiwa over the last decade in multi-language audio and text systems, bringing true multi-language touch enabled books to the mobile screen.

The QBook content creation system consists of in-house tools that leverage Apple's OS X technologies like Quicktime to provide high quality production standards with a reproducible work flow, allowing content creation and migration at an affordable price.

For Parents

QBook™ provides parents with a great educational and fun learning tool for their children. The unique Swipe-to-Read™ and Touch-To-Spell™ systems teach reading in a completely new way - allowing kids to see the words highlight as they touch and hear them, accelerating their learning. With the game modules drawing on content and words from the books kids will be entertained for hours, while they learn. Not only is it a ebook but also a iPhone app making it a versatile learning tool.

QBook teaches:

Life Skills
Values
Reading
Literacy
Spelling
Memory
Self Expression
New Languages

Each QBook contains the story narrated and written in many languages and offers everyone a great way to explore new languages, it's also great as a tool for learning second languages for adults. QBook is a great activity for kids of all ages and helps develop reading and comprehension skills. QBook can also be used as part of a lesson plan in guided reading or reading strategy and helps children learn spelling and pronunciation.

To download the latest Qbook titles visit the iTunes App Store.

For Publishers

QBook™ provides a conduit to bring new or existing creative content into the touch enabled digital market place. The QBook content creation system provides a streamlined framework for creating content once and distributing to multiple platforms, with a consistent user experience across all platforms.

Because QBooks are self contained applications they allow updating and feature DRM (Digital Rights Management) to protect publishers content and prevent unauthorised copying.

More than just an ebook publishing platform QBook features true multi-language support - localised user interface, multi-language story narration and text and the games modules also adapt to the users native language. Add as many languages as you want - for true international releases.

Kiwa has invested significant resources into creating the tools used to prepare content for touch screens allowing us to migrate whole catalogues or libraries with ease. Contact Roger Shakes to discuss migrating your content to the QBook format and be ready for the explosion of colour ebooks and ezines for the up coming Apple tablet.

QBook - the latest full colour ebook reader for kids has made its way around the globe to Mexico. The popular children's book series Milly, Molly was the choice of these children, showing that iPhone Apps are a great tool for children's literacy development. Sent in by Ari in Mexico, it shows her cousin’s children using the QBook, helping in developing reading skills and language development in Spanish

This is a wonderful story about children’s ebooks and one we’re happy to share with you. If you have any pictures or comments feel free to send them to us.

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