texts free of copyright
Books free of copyrights available on the application will be selected by us according to strict editorial guidelines. Each book will be processed and enhanced in such a way that a Hiboo reading experience will be totally new compared to the traditional reading of the same story.
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The Hiboo application will be available for free on the Apple App Store for iPad.
The books from the collection will be sold individually using credits: by credit card with payment from the application itself or directly on the website, or through gift cards available in real bookstores.
In 2009, 2 million e-books were downloaded.
Since 2009, we have been spectators to a rapid change in reading supports via multifunction devices and tablets: e-readers and tablets are becoming part of the household. More than a 25% of French people like digital as much as paper books. But digital books are far from replacing the paper, they are complementary.
Combining the results of a study that we carried out among fifty teenagers in the eighth and ninth grades attending Saint Joseph middle school in Dijon, and studies from the Centre National du Livre about young people’s reading habits, we observed that a significant decrease in reading takes place in middle school because of its silent and solitary aspects. Only 40% of 14 to 16-year old teenagers read regularly, whereas the rate was 70% at the ages of 8 to 10.
