Introducing Scribble My Story

Scribble My Story presented by Fingerprint Play

Happy new year!  We’d like to welcome the newest relative in the growing Scribble Press family of creativity products – the app for iPad Scribble My Story, available on the app store. We created Scribble My Story in partnership with Fingerprint Play, an innovative learning platform for kids 3-8.  

We were introduced last year to Fingerprint Play and really liked the way this platform helps parents and kids connect around digital learning and fun.  

Scribble My Story is similar to Scribble Press, with some key differences to support the younger creators: 

1) it has audio!  Pre-written stories are read aloud, and there is also the option to record your own voice as you write your own story. 

2) Scribble My Story takes advantage of the Fingerprint platform so parents can keep in touch with what their kids are learning and what books they are creating. 

3) There is a wealth of new artwork available, much of it based on the popular characters from Fingerprint Play’s Big Kid Life. 

Some features that are only available on Scribble Press for iPad – photo and web image import, support for classroom groups and public gallery publishing and print publishing.   For the more complex publishing projects you’ll still want to use Scribble Press, but there’s tons to do with Scribble My Story and it’s FREE to download!  

Check it out and let us know what you think!  

Britney’s birthday book

Last week we were asked to make a book for Britney Spears containing the birthday wishes from her fans that were tweeted to her. The book turned out beautifully, and of course who wouldn’t want a book full of people saying nice things about you?

What’s really interesting about this, however, is that it’s a traditional book made with content from social media. We’ve all heard the moaning about how new technologies such as the Kindle and Google Books signal the death of the good old cloth-bound version. No one is going to want to spend money on an actual book when they can download it, right?

That may be true for your average trashy novel or how-to guide, but for the books that have emotional resonance nothing will ever be quite as good as words printed on paper. On my bookshelf I’ve got the story of my life in books – my original copy of Macbeth with my chicken scratch 9th grade notes in the margin, my Constitutional Law textbook from my first year in law school, and hundreds of novels and classics that have meant something to me over the years. None of these books could ever be replaced by an electronic version, and I’ll cart them with me from house to house wherever our family may move.

Tweets from your fans are nice, but putting them into a book gives them a power and permanence that a web page can’t provide. Most of us aren’t lucky enough to be able to fill an entire book with birthday wishes from people we don’t know; if you happen to be one of the few who is, then put those great words in a book and keep it on your coffee table.

You can see more of Britney’s book on her website:

E! That Morning Show Visits Scribble Press

E!  Correspondent Scott Cushing and producer Peter Glowski visited Scribble Press last week and shot a really funny segment for That Morning Show.

There were a bunch of Scribble Press regulars there – kids – and they didn’t know quite what to make of Scott or the camera, which made it even funnier.   Scott wrote a book during his visit about his rivalry with another E! correspondent, Mark Long.  The book turned out great and we are selling copies of it on our website, with part of the proceeds going to benefit LA Family Housing.  Scott has a youtube channel –

http://www.youtube.com/user/CushTV

 

and you can buy copies of the book he wrote at http://scribblepress.com   – also see the video there!  Thanks for coming in, guys – we had a great time!