A leap of faith…me bungee jumping in NZ
Picture books are often either silly or visually stimulating, but rarely both at the same time. My Name is Elizabeth captures the best of both worlds, offering a fun, vivacious character and simple story arc complemented by the whimsical illustrations
There’s just nothing like the iPad
IT HAS been said before but bears repeating, …. there is no such thing as a tablet-computer business; what there is instead is a rip-roaring market for iPads—with some 32m of them sold in the past 12 months alone. The iconic Apple product has nearly two-thirds of the market and rising….
According to Ben Bajarin of Creative Strategies, a technology consultancy in Campbell, California, the iPad 2 is the most desired gift this holiday season in America, especially among children aged six to 12 years of age. Interestingly, the second most avid iPad 2 owners are people 65 years and older. That both children and old folks lust after the iPad 2 says much about the device’s ability to deliver computing while shielding the user from the more daunting aspects of a PC.
From Dec. 2, 2011 The Economist - Difference Engine: The iPad’s third coming
Check out my new best friend!
I was chatting with friends about the movie Crazy Stupid Love (which I loved) and i mentioned how much I also loved (maybe even more so) Dan in Real Life.
With the rise of digital books on the Kindle and the iPad, how is your local paper-based library keeping up? By fighting fire with fire. Ebook checkouts increased by more than 200% in 2010, according to a recent study from OverDrive, the leading distributor of ebooks and digital audiobooks to…
About Lisa Charters
Lisa Charters’ (Kids Can Press, VP Brands, New Media and New Channel Revenue) career in publishing spans more than 25 years. The past 15 years have been focused in the digital sales and marketing space launching and marketing both digital and traditional content products and brand partnerships.
Prior to her recent appointment at KCP, Lisa was SVP Director Digital at Random House of Canada where she positioned them as market leaders in providing content to consumers and directly connecting with them. During her more than 12 years at Random House, as the digital areas of the business continued to grow to be of significant importance, Lisa ensured that they were leveraged throughout the company.
Lisa has served as a committee member on the Canadian Marketing Association’s Digital Marketing Conference since 2007 and was Co-Chair in 2010. In 2008 Lisa was named a Strategy Magazine Marketer of the Year.
"The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
— Oscar Wilde
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don’t wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other."
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