INTRODUCING: FIZZY! ARCADE SUNSHINE MEDIA PUBLISHES INTERACTIVE CHILDREN’S BOOK A LION AND WHALE CAN DANCE FEATURING STUNNING HAND-DRAWN ILLUSTRATIONS BY BEN MCINTIRE, ANIMATIONS, GAMES AND MORE Limited review copies available upon request Author on tour; Available for interviews* NEW YORK, NY, April 30: A LION AND WHALE CAN DANCE, the first interactive children’s book by trail-blazing digital publishing firm Arcade Sunshine Media was released today as an iPad app and is now available at the App Store ($3.99). The app has a distinctively ‘old-school’ feel to it, thanks to lush, detailed illustrations by Ben McIntire, while the story pays homage … [Continue reading]

Arcade Sunshine Media just released an enhanced version of Moby-Dick into the iTunes store both as an app and an iBook. We went into researching the project knowing that it’s been one of the most influential novels of all time, but we didn’t anticipate finding the endless strange/funny/fascinating ways in which Melville’s classic continues to percolate up through pop-culture. We were so inspired by what we found that we decided to start a twitter handle that will post at least one bizzaro fact or pop culture reference about Moby-Dick every day for a year. @MobyDickApp Here’s just a taste of … [Continue reading]

It’s become pretty standard fare, at a conference or some party, that someone will accuse me of hating books.  Of wanting to destroy them.  Of course, this is entirely true.  Arcade Sunshine Media was started as a way to rid the world of knowledge.  I was a slow learner in first grade and this is my revenge. Considering I’ve always been short for my age, am about as coordinated as a slow loris, and spent large swathes of my childhood flying around the country for chess tournaments, I’ve been on the seriously, compulsively ‘passionate about books’ track since the Reagan … [Continue reading]