Sales of digital children's books were up 171%, while non-fiction titles increased by 128%.
After digital switchover, children's programmes will be removed from BBC One's afternoon schedule and BBC Two's morning slots.
Qordoba Books, an online reading and publishing platform and Sacha Books, an Egyptian startup that produces interactive digital stories for children.
The NPD Group captured this trend recently in a report that found that there has been a noticeable shift in digital content purchases by children ages 2-14 over the last two years.
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But Tim, a teacher at Chew Magna Primary School, Bristol, UK, regularly travels with his pupils into entirely different digital worlds with his children - worlds that are mystical, musical, and eerily beautiful lands.
The Mountfort boys are at the young end of the recommended age range for children's digital cameras, but their photo-friendly upbringing more than makes up for their shortness of tooth.
When last we saw the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, he was capturing the songs of Ugandan street children with his digital video camera, delighting in the portability and intimacy of the new technology.
Adults can use personal passwords to easily protect and access their books, magazines, videos, apps and their personal email accounts, while their children can dive into digital picture books, educational apps and kid-friendly videos.
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The program has already offered training in business fundamentals, social innovation, and leadership effectiveness to more than 100 emerging social enterprise leaders from Mercy Corps, Digital Divide Data, Save the Children, World Vision, and other organizations.
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When I met Sandy, a rising executive at a big-time digital media company, she had two children under two years old.
The Joan Ganz Conney Center at Sesame Workshop supports a variety of research initiatives looking to develop and innovate digital and game-based learning for children.
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With the exception of CBeebies, a channel for young children, all of the new digital TV offerings cost more per user than BBC One (see chart below).
The charity ChildLine is holding assemblies in every UK primary school to tell children how to stay safe in the digital age.
One partner, the Latino Community Foundation, is working through a network of eight community groups in the San Francisco Bay Area to provide digital literacy classes in Spanish to involve parents in their children education and help them find work.
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Thanks to a partnership with advertising giant Clear Channel Outdoor, the G-men will deploy some 150 digital billboards -- capable of displaying fugitives, missing children, or public safety info in real-time -- to 20 major cities around the country, following a successful trial launched in Philadelphia in September.
The children's program is closing in on the kind of rarified digital milestone usually reserved for the likes of pop stars and cat videos.
The teaching of reading should encompass a balance of teaching strategies including a systematic approach to phonics and other word reading strategies, and a significant emphasis on children experiencing a wide range of texts, including moving image and digital - all available to read from the very beginning.
Today's digital version of that innocent crusade, led by the pied-pipers from Invisible Children, probably won't end so tragically.
According to a new study conducted by research firm PlayScience and Digital Book World, nearly 40% of parents who have e-reading children aged 2-to-13 plan on buying them some sort of e-reading device this holiday season.
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Parents increasingly recognise that their youngsters have digital expertise they lack but want to tap, and also that their best defence against their children falling foul of the dark side of the internet, such as online sexual predators, is to win their children's trust through honest conversation.
Podcasts are essentially talk radio for your digital audio player, available on the Web for download, and cover content from politics to comedy to children's stories.
At the time Mr Thompson said the BBC would only survive in the digital world if it invested more in areas such as journalism, drama, comedy, music, learning, and children's TV and radio.
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