Scholastic has created a new children’s book platform app called Storia, where children can read eBooks, look up words, take quizzes and play games, while their parents can track their progress.
The platform also includes enriched eBooks, which according to Scholastic’s site, “use word games, story interactions, and animation to deeply draw your young reader in, further developing confidence and critical thinking skills.”
eBookNewser has more: “Storia includes about 1,300 different eBooks, as well as interactive games, puzzles and quizzes that readers can buy from the publisher within the app. The app, which is currently available in beta form for teachers and students that buy through the Scholastic Book Clubs, comes with five free eBooks…The app is slated for general release this fall, and is expected to have more than 2,000 books by that time.”
Vice president for business development Jeff Mathews told NPR that Scholastic’s eBook represent about five percent of sales for Scholastic children’s books.