BOOKR Kids just recently partnered with Albatros Media corporation, representing the largest publishing house and media group in the Czech Republic. During the cooperation, Albatros Media corporation outsources its full digital production to BOOKR Kids from the interactive book production to app development.
BOOKR Kids offers children a wonderful tool for reading: an easy-to-use interactive e-book application. It’s filled with fun and interactive stories which are enriched with live-voice audio, text-highlighting, educational games and animation in order to give a more complex reading experience for young readers. BOOKR Kids has already won numerous awards ranging from the Toy of the year to European Women Startup Competition. Besides, the company is also part of Facebook Start Program.
After rocketing to success with its own library application in Hungary, the company launched its B2B services at the end of 2016 providing full and complete digital service to turn international publishers’ printed content into interactive stories. The application is subscription based and available both on iOS and Android mobile devices.
BOOKR Kids is just recently partnered with Albatros Media corporation, representing the largest publishing house and media group in the Czech Republic. The prosperous company has published over 10,000 titles in the past 65 years with a total volume exceeding 350 millions copies including the region’s most favourite long-seller, the Little Mole, and international worldwide brands of Disney, and mega-successes like Rowling’s Harry Potter series. Albatros’ market share is over 60% on the Czech and Slovakian children market.
The company leadership, perceiving the importance and high potentials of the digital transformation and made a 3 years long contract with BOOKR Kids.
“We have no doutbs BOOKR Kids is one of the most innovative startups in our industry. BOOKR Kids team obviously knows exactly what the youngest readers and their parents are looking for, and offer the best solution tailored to their needs. Albatros Media is continuously working on expanding our products and services to the digital age, and we consider the BOOKR Kids cooperation to be important strategic move. We have extremely high expectations from the project as we aim to be the leading provider of the digital book content in both the Czech Republic and Slovakia,” says Vaclav Kadlec, Albatros Media Group Chairman of the Board and CEO.
Václav Kadlec, CEO of Albatros Media
During the cooperation, Albatros Media corporation outsources its full digital production to BOOKR Kids from the interactive book production to app development. As a result, the most popular children’s books of Albatros Media will be enriched with animation, text-highlighting, narration and educational games appearing in a branded library app available via App Store and Google Play.
“Goal of our partnership is to deliver a market leader interactive library app to the Czech Republic and Slovakia with 10,000 monthly subscribers and hundreds of Albatros’ books” – says Dorka Horváth, CEO and Founder of BOOKR Kids.