The New Goodbye comes to Kindle

After the success of the iPhone app, The New Goodbye is now available to own for your Kindle. Buy it from Amazon here. Or here if you're in the US, here you go. And if you're on the Continent, Amazon Germany has it too.

The cover concept was by Fixabook, the photography by Jili Allen and the design by r27.

Shh. Don't tell anyone...

... But we've struck a deal with Foyles, one of London's oldest, most famous and prestigious booksellers, who will be promoting The New Goodbye in its stores come the update in a couple of weeks time.

The update will also have some lovely Foyles goodness too, in the shape of money-off and free ticket vouchers created by one Ms J Basford. Once we've added the update, visiting any of the Foyles stores with your iPhone will also let you unlock some exclusive extra content for the app.

There'll be the music video too of course, created by Order for Rich Watson's title track. Rich has also recently updated his MySpace page with a new music player, so if you don't have an iPhone but want to hear The New Goodbye, take a trip over there.

Video, blogs and bookshops

A few things of note from the last week or so. Firstly, my piece on digital books and more specifically book apps was posted on The Bookseller's Futurebook blog. This received quite a bit of Twitter-love, and also got picked up by Chris Meadows over on Teleread.

The much bigger news though is a major bookseller has given the nod to a deal hinted at in the Futurebook piece, and that The New Goodbye app should soon get a rather significant push in some bookshops in London.

In other news, last weekend Rich and Order completed filming for the video of The New Goodbye, which consisted of much pain-staking live action stop-motion. Here are a few not particularly illuminating photos from the shoot.

A fancy camera and a sockless foot

 

 

More feet - this time they're on a storyboard

This is more like it. Animator 'Tank'

and some colourful card (courtesy of EBB)

Congratulations also to Russell, who's now taken up his full-time position with McSweeney's.