The WSJ looks at Rick Richter’s Ruckus Media and other children’s book app initiatives. Richter estimates the cost of creating each app at between $12,000 and $30,000, and says they have 75 titles under contract, including a deal with Jon Scieszka–who says “I think that what we’ll find in the new app world is that the original stuff will really fly,”WSJ Scribner is the latest publisher to take a crack at selling short works for 99 cents, offering 69 essays by Chuck Klosterman, “almost all” of which have appeared in books already. They are also offering six thematic collections of […]
