Presidential Speeches on the iPhone
I’m excited to announce that today we have released our first applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch. “DocNotes: Presidential Speeches” is available in Basic ($.99) and Pro ($9.99) versions. The Basic version includes the full text of 90 famous presidential speeches in U.S. history, while the Pro version includes the full document texts plus a customized version of our award-winning expert commentary on each speech. You can learn more about the apps here, or you can search on “DocNotes” or “Presidential Speeches” in the App store.
There are a number of useful features in these apps, including bookmarking, highlighting, and note-taking. The Pro version allows you to e-mail a document (and accompanying analysis) with your inline notes and colored highlights.
These apps offer a promising new front in our business, one designed to make our content available to users wherever they are, in whatever format is convenient. Our foundation remains our reference encyclopedias, with our individual expert commentary on MilestoneDocuments.com serving a complementary function for students and researchers whose libraries don’t buy our sets. Now, for the first time, our content is mobile. These apps offer a great research tool for history students as well as a convenient teaching tool for educators. Plus, for the history buff, they’re just fun to explore.
We’ve got many more apps in development, including ones on Supreme Court decisions, Barack Obama and Abe Lincoln, and teaching activities for U.S. and World History teachers. I’ll be sure to keep readers updated on our progress on this blog.