New York, NY, January 25, 2011 — Digital Book World announced last night that A Story Before Bed (http://www.astorybeforebed.com) won the first ever Publishing Innovation Award in the Children’s category.

Jenny Lam, Co-Creator of A Story Before Bed (and Co-Founder of its parent company Jackson Fish Market) added: “We couldn’t be more pleased to win the first ever Publishing Innovation Award. Our passion has been to connect families through the experience of reading children’s books and the creative use of technology. Seeing our creation recognized by our colleagues in the publishing industry is a great affirmation that we’re helping consumers and publishers by not only extending the children’s book business, but by growing it creatively in the digital space.”

A Story Before Bed launched in November 2009 as the first and only service where consumers could record a video of themselves reading a children’s book. Children could play back the story as often as they like. Just over a year later A Story Before Bed has grown their catalog of books tenfold with the help of publishing partners including Charlesbridge, Chronicle Books, Orca Book Publishers, Soundprints, Sourcebooks, Parragon, Immedium, and more. The customer base has grown significantly as well with thousands of customers now using A Story Before Bed to record children’s books. Additionally, since mid-2010, customers have been able to view their recorded stories on the iPad and iPhone with the A Story Before Bed app having been downloaded over 270,000 times from Apple’s App Store (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/a-story-before-bed-personalized/id364887654?mt=8). Today, A Story Before Bed remains the only children’s book service in the world providing personalized recordable video read-a-long functionality.

A Story Before Bed is also giving away 100,000 children’s book recordings for free to deployed and deploying parents in the U.S. Armed Forces connecting families who are separated in service of their country (http://www.astorybeforebed.com/military). To date they’ve given away over 75,000 stories for free towards their goal.

Bill Burnham, Founder and Director of Corporate Development for Soundprints, an imprint of Palm Publishing LLC, said, “As a publisher of quality children’s books, we spent a long time looking for the right partner in the digital space. A Story Before Bed is a fabulous service for consumers that will feature our content in a first class fashion. Additionally, the folks at A Story Before Bed treat their publishing partners with the same care and attention they give their loyal customers. We’re very pleased to be introducing our titles on A Story Before Bed in the coming weeks.”

Hillel Cooperman, Co-Creator of A Story Before Bed and Co-Founder of Jackson Fish Market said, “While A Story Before Bed has grown by leaps and bounds during its first year, we still have an enormous amount of work to do to bring even more high quality children’s books to the millions of customers who would benefit from our service. We believe in a future where there is no such thing as a child reading a book without the ability to watch grandma reading it to her any time she wants on any device she can access. With our loyal community of customers and our forward-thinking publishing partners we working hard to play a leadership role in showing the world what a great children’s book experience can be, and how to bring not just children’s books, but the children’s book business to the modern digital world.”

A Story Before Bed (http://www.astorybeforebed.com) was launched in Novermber of 2009 by Jackson Fish Market (http://www.jacksonfish.com), a small bootstrapped software startup in Seattle, Washington founded in 2006 by Jenny Lam, Walter Smith, and Hillel Cooperman. A Story Before Bed is the leading provider of children’s books with personalized digital video accompaniments in the world now featuring over 250 books in its catalog from over a dozen publishing partners.