Archive for October, 2009

Today we are pleased to announce our latest app, AudioBookShelf. We have tried to raise the bar on the audiobook experience. We have created an immersive, engaging environment in which to listen to your favorite classic audiobooks.

Features:

• Beautifully crafted books and bookshelf – You’ll wish you had this shelf of books in your home!
• Intuitive, landscape layout – Browse your bookshelf the way you would in real life!
• Listen offline – Books will be downloaded to your device, so you can listen without worrying about a network connection.
• Playback control – Includes play, pause, rewind, fast forward, play 2x faster, navigate to any point in chapter, chapter browser, and a sleep timer.
• Automatic Bookmarking – AudioBookShelf will bookmark the books you are listening to and start right where you left off last time.

Initial Books:

• Anne of Green Gables
• The Art of War
• A Christmas Carol
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Gulliver’s Travel
• The Invisible Man
• Jane Eyre
• Pride and Prejudice
• Sleepy Hollow
• The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
• Treasure Island
• Wuthering Heights

Just wanted to drop a quick line about howAudiobooks is doing. We have been frantically working on a new project that we think will really be a hit, but in the meantime Audiobooks is rollin’ along nicely.

• 6,292,484 total book downloads
• 371,976 total users
• Most Popular Book: Dracula with 327,697 downloads (almost everyone has gotten it!)
• Least Popular Book: The Road Builders with 44.