Standard Nine Inc. launched a new series of Frommer’s interactive digital travel guides. The company already powers a number of iPad book apps, including the Culinary Institute of America’s 'Professional Chef' and Open Air Publishing titles like food52 holiday survival guide and speakeasy cocktails. The Frommer’s titles seven of them at launch, with at least a dozen more rolling out by the end of the year will be available for iPhone as well as iPad and cost $9.99 or $14.99 (depending on the size of the destination) in the iTunes store. The titles launched are among Frommer’s bestselling guides in print Costa Rica, France, Alaska, California, Japan, Spain and Great Britain. The guides include lots of retina-optimized photographs most of which Frommer’s hadn’t been able to fit into its print guides before and features like interactive guided destination tours and interactive maps, notebooks with shared notes and web links, and real-time weather.

Standard Nine Inc Presents at VentureWire Fastech 2011, Nov-09-2011 02:40 PM. Venue: Sofitel San Francisco Bay, 223 Twin Dolphin Drive, Redwood City, CA 94065, United States. Speakers: Matt MacInnis, Founder & CEO.

Inkling announced the release of version 2.0 for iPad. Now, each Inkling textbook channels the collective wisdom of every student who has used it, anywhere in the world. Students can collaborate, search and study more effectively than ever before. Inkling 2.0 now includes: Study groups, evolved-- Have discussions anywhere in the book with anyone using the same book, including classmates, professors and even Facebook friends. An expert in every book -- Follow the book's expert or pick one and get access to their notes. Suggested discussions and popular comments help students grasp concepts more quickly and focus their attention on the stuff that matters most. The ultimate study guide -- Inkling organizes all the notes, highlights, bookmarks and links that students create and follow in one handy spot: their notebook. Instantly saved to the cloud, notebook improves on the fly as study. Search beyond the book -- Now, search results from Wikipedia or Google appear right inside in the book. Save them to the notebook for instant study access.