We are very excited to see that the Adobe Air team presented Storybook Anytime during the Adobe MAX conference in Milan, Italy this past week. Robert Christensen presented a session titled “Monetizing Applications with Adobe AIR” in which he examined case studies that describe how developers are attempting to monetize and market AIR applications. The featured case study was Storybook Anytime and our two flagship products Sam’s Interactive Reader and Sam’s Fish Bowl. It included a glimpse into our social and online marketing and techniques used via Facebook (and now Twitter) to generate interest in our product and company.

You can view the full presentation here at the Adobe Air blog.

The Adobe MAX conference continues in Tokyo, Japan after the holidays — January 29 - 30, 2009. Once again, thanks Adobe. You guys rock!

Ok parents we have released a Facebook application just for you. Sam’s Fish Bowl allows you to become the caregiver of a super-unique fish. Your fish is alive and well and lives everyday on Facebook. He will require special care and feeding from both you and your friends, and will certainly become a beloved member of the family.

Each time you feed your fish you will earn Super Feeder Points. These points can be shared with your child’s Super Reader Points within Sam’s Interactive Reader. We think you’ll like this casual game and it also helps us spread the word about Storybook Anytime through everyone’s social network on Facebook. Thank you for your support!

Storybook Anytime is pleased to announce the long awaited release of our first Spanish translated stories! After six long months, we finally have the Spanish translations complete, and available for purchase and download. It has been a goal of Storybook Anytime since the beginning, to offer our stories in Spanish, so we are very proud to have finally reached this point.

We really believe that this will not only be an asset to the Spanish speaking community at large but can also be used by English speaking families as a way to expose their children to a new language in a fun and familiar way. We are also excited to have it available as an additional tool to the English as a Second Language programs in schools all across the country.

We will be adding more Spanish stories in the coming weeks so enjoy and stay tuned!

When it was time for Storybook Anytime to build Sam’s Interactive Reader we looked at many options. It was important to our customers and ourselves that we be able to deliver a light-weight, safe, secure and user friendly application for both Windows and Macintosh operating systems. Equally important to our business was to insure that we could get quickly to market while leveraging as much of our existing back end infrastructure as possible. Companies like eBay, AOL, Nickelodeon, Yahoo! and Nasdaq have all used Adobe Air to deliver Rich Internet Applications (RIA) to their users desktop. For Sam’s Interactive Reader, the choice to build on the Adobe Air platform was the right one.

We are happy to take this opportunity to say a special thanks to the great folks at Adobe. Yesterday they not only made Sam’s Interactive Reader available within the Adobe Air Marketplace but made it number two on the “Staff Picks” list. What a true honor to be a part of the Adobe Air family. Thank you Adobe!