Ever gone to an author reading at the local library or children’s bookstore? Now you can see authors and illustrators reading their own creations 24 hours a day on StoryTime in the Reading Room from A Story Before Bed. Details inside.

I certainly hope so… I know I am. This updated book is dark, sparkly, and gahgeous! We’d love for you to check it out. You can get all the details in our fancy new video newsletter embedded below.

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We have some fun announcements today. We took a little break here at A Story Before Bed over the last couple of weeks. It’s been hot here in Seattle and we needed to recharge. But… we haven’t been totally devoid of progress. For some time I’ve been promising to unveil a bunch of new books [...]

Here’s this week’s question… do we have a new free book for you to read to your kids or grandkids? What a silly question. Of course we do! As parents and grandparents I think we’re always asking ourselves if we’re doing as good a job as we can. We all know that reading to our [...]

Hey A Story Before Bed pals (is ‘pals’ too familiar? maybe I should stick with ‘fans’)… what’s that sound? It’s the sound of 19 new books arriving in our bookstore for you to enjoy. Thunk! (Now imagine that sound 18 more times.) Almost anyone who’s now 30 or older the will immediately recognize the Junior [...]

When you run a business, you try to keep things steady and predictable. It makes life easier when things happen at a regular and predictable pace. This is true both in terms of the internals of the business and the externals, including things like how often we have new books for you. But in reality, [...]

Hey there fans of A Story Before Bed (and I count myself among you … Wow wow wow it is hot. Seriously hot. Taking the kids out last night for frozen yogurt only provided temporary relief. Seattle is very muggy. They say the weekend will bring relief. I’m keeping my fingers crossed. But heat does [...]

Hey everyone. Hope you’ve all had a nice week. The last two notes have rivaled a PhD thesis in terms of length so I’m going to keep it short and sweet for everyone this week. As promised, A-Z at the Earth Museum is no longer free. But, we’re not stingy here at A Story Before [...]

Hey there A Story Before Bed fans (I think we might need a shorter name for this group. Story Fans? ASBBers? My BFFs? Hmmm… I’m taking suggestions): My name is Hillel, and I’m one of the founders and owners of A Story Before Bed. Last week I talked to you about how much I enjoy [...]

Back in mid-2009 when we were building A Story Before Bed a children’s books online service for its eventual launch in the fall of 2009 we had a talk about how to support our eventual customers. I remember reading a blog post (which I can’t find now – please post in the comments if you [...]

We’ve been busy here on the Jackson Fish Market back lot shooting some new videos to help people understand and get excited about A Story Before Bed. The first is a 60 second commercial for the site. The second is a little more in-depth look at the features of the site along with an example [...]

On the heels of adding over 25 books last week, we’re thrilled to add five more high quality children’s picture books to our growing catalog here on A Story Before Bed. Chronicle Books is well known for creating very high quality children’s picture books and the first five are no exceptions. Boomer Goes to School [...]

We’re very excited to announce a whole slew of new books for A Story Before Bed. Many thanks to our existing publishing partners, especially Charlesbridge for contributing so many new books to keep you and your family entertained. And special thanks to two brand new publishing partners — Gingerbread House and 1889. Both are making [...]

Yesterday, March 31, 2010 at 5:53pm Cupertino time we were informed by Apple that that our brand new app – A Story Before Bed for iPad – was approved for launch and will be available for iPad customers at launch is available now! YAY! Back in November of 2009 we launched A Story Before Bed [...]

Chinese New Year falls on February 14th this year and to celebrate it, we are releasing a new book on A Story Before Bed. Check out Immedium’s Year of the Tiger by Oliver Chin and Justin Roth. While you’re there, you can also record other great chinese zodiac books: Year of the Dog, Year of [...]

We love seeing pictures of you and your family using A Story Before Bed. Here’s one from Flickr user HunterJI of his kids watching a story read by his mom on A Story Before Bed. Send in your pics and we’ll post them. Also… if you record a particularly great story on A Story Before [...]

Happy New Year! I kicked off 2010 by spending a week down in chilly (!) Atlanta, teaching a few design classes at Portfolio Center School. If you’re not familiar with Portfolio Center, you should be. It’s a school for design, art direction, photography, copywriting, illustration and digital media. (It’s also where I attended school… ages [...]

We know the holidays are a time when family is in town. And though you’ll have lots to do, it might be a nice investment of time for family that lives far away to sit in front of the computer for a bit and record some stories to be played back after they’ve gone home. [...]

I wish I could say that careful planning led us to having all these kid-focused offerings. The truth is more ‘organic’. We’ve shipped a suite of fun educational apps for toddlers — Hippo Hooray, and we’ve shipped A Story Before Bed, a service that lets parents and grandparents who can’t be near their kids at [...]

We’ve put our demos up on YouTube which will make it easier for some folks to watch them and see how grandparents who live far away can stay in touch with their grandchildren using A Story Before Bed. Here’s my dad reading The Three Billy Goats Gruff to my kids.

We had a nice report from a local Seattle TV station a couple of weeks ago. Here it is in its entirety.

The library of books available for you to record on A Story Before Bed keeps growing. We just released four new books just in time for the big sale weekend and the upcoming holidays: The Little Red Elf by Barbara Barbieri McGrath and Rosalinde Bonnet – a retelling of the Little Red Hen story with [...]

Recently, A Story Before Bed became the first (and still only) service on the internet to let parents and grandparents separated from their kids, record video of themselves reading children’s stories synchronized to the pages of a book onscreen. All Thanksgiving weekend, stories on A Story Before Bed will be on sale for only $4.99 [...]

For those of you who don’t know, 826 Seattle is a branch of the national network of 826 centers across the country. In their own words: “826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. Each chapter offers drop-in tutoring, field trips, workshops, and [...]

Dear high quality indy children’s book publisher: We’re a high quality indy software publisher with a new site focused on children’s books. It’s called A Story Before Bed. The site lets parents and grandparents who can’t be with their kids at bedtime, record a video of themselves reading to their child synchronized to the pages [...]

Not even a week after launching A Story Before Bed we had the honor of attending the Children’s Deployment Fair at the Fort Lewis military base just outside Tacoma, Washington. While we originally imagined our new site would be used by grandparents and parents reading to children, we were surprised to see how many families [...]

This Saturday, the Fort Lewis Family Morale, Welfare and Recreation organization will be hosting a Children’s Deployment Fair at Evergreen elementary school on the Fort Lewis base. We’ll be there with laptops, webcams, and hopefully some decent internet access giving free recordings to as many families as possible. One thousand families are expected to show [...]

Jenny, Walter and I are incredibly proud to announce our latest creation – A Story Before Bed. A few years ago, I tried videotaping my parents reading stories to my young kids. My parents live on the east coast and I wanted my west coast children to have bedtime stories from their grandparents, even when [...]