While most children, like their parents, still encounter Sesame Street primarily on their TV, the 43-year-old nonprofit brand now attracts 16.5 million kids and parents across its digital platforms every quarter. 35 percent of children ages 0 through 8 now experience Sesame Street exclusively on non-TV platforms, and 85 percent…

The children’s and young adult e-book market faces special challenges not shared by the adult market, new research shows. And teens are slow to adopt e-books, in part because they do not see e-books as a social technology and they think there are too many restrictions on sharing digital titles.

Coliloquy, a Palo Alto-based publisher focusing on interactive fiction for adults, launches its first four serial titles today on Kindle. The books are active content apps, rather than static e-book files—allowing for multiple story lines, personalized content, in-book reader/author engagement and the delivery of prompts and extras. The company’s founders…

As Thursday approaches, more details (or rumors) are leaking out about what Apple’s education announcement will entail: opinion appears to be coalescing around a new interactive service for textbooks on Apple’s iPad tablet device.

USA Today is reporting a post-holiday e-book “surge,” with 32 of the top 50 titles on its most recent list selling more copies in digital format than in print, including all top ten titles. I broke down the lists to see which books sold more copies in each format.

As expected, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has started to send out invitations to an event in New York, and now we know what it will be about: education.

Ahead of the release of the Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks, J. K. Rowling’s Pottermore.com is running a survey on reading habits.

Seeing “digital devices as another canvas for kids to share their originality and creative ideas,” Crayola is partnering with interactive storybook app publisher Ruckus Media on a series of e-books and apps for iOS and Android.

With the release of its color-screened, picture-book-friendly Kindle Fire, Amazon (NSDQ: AMZN) is expanding into publishing books for a new audience: Kids. To start, the company’s publishing division is acquiring over 450 children’s books published by the U.S. division of Marshall Cavendish—but it won’t end there.

When we last heard from James Frey, he was releasing a YA novel with a soundtrack. Now his book packaging company, Full Fathom Five, is launching The Nightworld, a joint mobile video game and e-book.

Speaking at Liberty Media’s annual investor meeting this afternoon, Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch said the company expects the size of the print book market to decrease by a third by 2015, while the e-book market grows by 700 percent—and B&N sees itself taking larger shares of…

Building on the massive success of its 39 Clues adventure series for kids—which includes not just print books but also online games and card collecting, and sold 11 million copies—Scholastic is publishing seven 39 Clues short stories as e-books, starting on December 25.

Teenagers who founded their own start-ups could find themselves featured in titles from Backlit, a new young adult e-book publisher based in Santa Monica. While bestselling YA series like Gossip Girl have centered around the Manhattan elite, Backlit is a product of Silicon Valley and Hollywood—with a first-look agreement from…

When Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) CEO William Lynch introduced the Simple Touch Reader this past May, he described it as an e-reader easy enough for your grandmother to use. She may not be the intended audience for the new Nook Tablet—but who, exactly, is? It was hard to tell…

There’s this little tablet called the Kindle Fire that has been getting some press recently, but Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) is forging ahead anyway: The company is holding a press conference on Monday at which it is widely expected to announce the new Nook Color tablet. How will Barnes…

It has become something of a meme that young kids take to smartphones and tablets like fish to water. Today sees a development that could foster that idea along with more content for them to consume. Mindshapes, an educational games publisher started in 2010 by five execs with a track…

New initiatives from Open Road Integrated Media and Wattpad hope to draw teen readers in with webisodes, music videos, “triggered events” and other digital goodies. The strategy for Open Road’s project: Everything is new. The strategy for Wattpad’s project: We’re taking something old and making it new and free.

Pottermore, the interactive Harry Potter community site that recently launched in beta, was supposed to start its exclusive sales of Harry Potter e-books and digital audiobooks as early as this month. But now the site has pushed back the Pottermore Shop’s launch to “the first half of 2012.” Why?

Wattpad, an online writing community that lets users share and collaborate on stories across platforms including mobile apps, has closed a $3.5 million first round of funding led by Union Square Ventures.