Posts in A Story Before Bed

A Story Before Bed has let hundreds of thousands of families connect over space and time since its launch in 2009. It’s a service that let’s you record a video of yourself reading a children’s picture book. The video synchronizes with the pages of the book and can be viewed at any time after the […]

We’ve always believed that the mission of A Story Before Bed is to connect loved ones through the magic of reading children’s books. Now with over 500 books on our service, we’re proud to deliver on that every day. We have also always believed that preserving these readings in the form of recordings is the […]

Two years ago, we launched an online children’s book service called A Story Before Bed. The service lets parents, grandparents, teachers, authors, and even kids record videos of themselves reading a children’s book that can be played back over and over again. We’ve been lucky enough to work with some amazing children’s book publishers who’ve […]

There aren’t many things more enjoyable than the surprise learnings you get from shipping a piece of software and seeing how people actually use it. We created A Story Before Bed to connect families, but were surprised to see just how useful teachers and educators found the service for use in their classrooms. Imagine letting […]

When we started building A Story Before Bed in late 2008 there was really only one place to have customers record videos of themselves reading children’s books – inside a web browser on a PC or Mac with an attached webcam. So that’s the path we pursued. But a year and a half later when […]