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Orem, Utah, Jun 14, 2011 – “My Daddy”, a new interactive animated ebook for the iPhone and iPad, is in the App Store just in time for Father’s Day, only $1.99. As a universal app, users can purchase the app once and install it on both their iPhone and iPad, optimized for each screen size.

Each page depicts a different scene of a boy spending time with his Daddy. Animation and interactivity, or touch spots, on every page. They play catch, Daddy teaches the boy how to ride a bike, they go fishing, Daddy scares away the monsters under the bed, and on and on. They are accompanied by a little white mouse that likes to be a part of the fun! But he likes to hide. Readers must tap around each page to find him. Watch the mouse ride off on a motorcycle while the boy is learning to ride his bike.

Monday, June 6th, on its third day of sales, My Daddy hit #45 in iPad Books in the U.S. App Store. My Daddy is one of the new ebooks created using TaleSpring, where non-technical authors can create their own interactive, animated ebooks for the iPhone and iPad.

While many development shops will build interactive, animated book applications for their clients at a cost of thousands of dollars, TaleSpring has provided an online authoring tool that enables non-technical authors to create their own animated books for the iPad and iPhone for free, and publish to the iPad and iPhone for only $150. A June special allows for half-off; publish for only $75.

“My Daddy” is the fifth book to be published through TaleSpring. Others include:
1) “Darla of the Deep” – a young girl’s imagination takes her on adventures during bathtime.
2) “My Adventure” – has Trevor lost his imagination? Could it be true?
3) “Lucy has a Straw” – Lucy discovers many fun things to do with her new pink restaurant straw.
4) “The World’s Shortest Cactus Springs Tale Ever” – a jumpy cactus farmer really travels when he falls on a cactus.

TaleSpring is focusing their application efforts in the areas of children’s books, scrapbooking, training and sales, advertising, and academia, where the art of storytelling can be significantly enhanced with the TaleSpring application.

Device Requirements:
* iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad
* Requires iOS 4.2 or later
* Universal Application
* 14.7 MB

Pricing and Availability:
My Daddy 1.0 is $1.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Books category.

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TaleSpring invites budding authors to “Let Your Story Out!”. Headquartered in Orem, UT, TaleSpring launched it’s new service in February 2011. Copyright 2011 TaleSpring, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPad, and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Orem, UT    Jun 14, 2011 - While many development shops will build interactive, animated book applications for their clients at a cost of thousands of dollars, TaleSpring provides an online authoring tool that enables non-technical authors to create their own animated ebooks for the iPad and iPhone for free, and publish to the iPad and iPhone for only $150 ($75 in June). It’s free to sign-up, free to create books; you only pay when you publish.

Through June 30th, storytellers may publish for 50% OFF, only $75. Customers may also hire TaleSpring to build the ebook for $500-$1000, depending on book size.

TaleSpring CEO Jason Izatt is excited to provide an easy-to-use, online platform for anyone with a story to tell, and publish that story in a rich media format at an affordable price.

“The iPad, iPhone, and Android devices have opened the world of having rich, engaging content with us wherever we go,” Izatt said. “We believe in making that world accessible to everyone, giving them an opportunity to let their story out, without holding them hostage to the need for technical skills or big budgets.”

TaleSpring is focusing their application efforts in the areas of children’s books, scrapbooking, training and sales, advertising, and academia, where the art of storytelling can be significantly enhanced with the TaleSpring application.

eBooks published with the TaleSpring system can be found by searching the App Store for “TaleSpring”. Prices range from $1.99 to $5.99. The author or storyteller gets to set the price of their own book, and receive a 50% royalty on the sales of the book. Apple keeps 30%, TaleSpring gets 20%.

While animated children’s books have caught the public’s eye, interactive publications also include promotional and instructional apps. Zimbi is creating a “How to throw a Zimbi” book using the TaleSpring system. Sales and training organizations can also use it to produce highly instructive materials that are now portable on a mobile device, such as the iPad.

Community Recognition
In May 2010, TaleSpring was selected as one of 10 companies to be part of the inaugural year of BoomStartup, a four-month incubator/mentorship program designed to grow new businesses. In June 2010, TaleSpring was recognized as a finalist for the Utah Startup of the Year award by FundingUniverse.

Currently, TaleSpring is one of 10 companies chosen for the 2011 Provo Tech-X Revenue Accelerator program which draws upon various experts in the sub-fields of Sales and Marketing to provide direct training and mentoring to participant companies for a 12-week period.

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TaleSpring invites budding authors to “Let Your Story Out!” Headquartered in Orem, UT, TaleSpring launched it’s new service in February 2011. For more information about company’s newest storytelling applications, visit TaleSpring online. Copyright 2011 TaleSpring, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPad, and iPod are registered trademarks of Apple Computer in the U.S. and/or other countries.

TaleSpring has added some more exciting features to help you make great books; background colors, on-load audio and a new help system.

Instead of starting with blank white pages, now you can add a background color to each page or you can add a gradient. Gradients are a smooth color transition between two colors which can be from top to bottom, left to right , at an angle or radial (from the center out). Gradients can give your pages a realistic sky effect.

On-load Audio is a feature that will allow sounds to play when a page first appears. This feature could be used for reading the text in the book or playing a background sound.

We have added a new help system that starts with a quick overview of the buttons on the interface, then allows you to walk through the steps of many of the essential tasks.

Along with these changes we have added WYSIWYG animation creation – you actually see what the graphic or text is going to look like while you’re creating the move, scale, or rotate animation.