21st Century Bedtime Stories

Grandparents, business travelers, and soldiers have always struggled to share books with the children in their lives, and one company has developed a virtual way to read a book to your favorite kid.

The recently launched A Story Before Bed website allows anyone to record a video and audio of themselves reading a children’s book out loud. Using a computer’s webcam, they can easily share the book with a child. The company has priced individual recordings at the introductory price of $6.99 and offers free reading coupons for military parents.

Here’s more about the company’s library and network of partnerships: “We’ve worked closely with our three launch publishing partners – Immedium, Charlesbridge Publishing, and Bubblegum Books to create a launch library of over 50 books. Our growing library includes over a dozen classics such as The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Frog Princess, and The Itsy Bitsy Spider, as well as state-of-the art modern children’s books like the Octonauts series created by Meomi and the first several books in the Tales from the Chinese Zodiac series. We even have a small start at our Spanish children’s library with Insectos para el Almuerzo and Que Nervios! El Primer Dia de Escuela.”

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