You may remember we ran a small promotional competition in late January of this year. To help celebrate the release of 3D Bookshelf for iPhone and iPod touch, we gave away an Apple iPad. We announced the winner at the close of the competition and waited patiently for the iPad to go on sale.

Our competition winner hails from the UK, so on the 10th of May (the day Apple started taking pre-orders there) we placed an order with Apple and were lucky enough to nab one from the first batch of iPads to make it into the country. Later that month, our prize winner got her iPad!

Recently, she very kindly sent us a photo of herself and her competition prize.

Congratulations Giverny! We hope you enjoy your new iPad!

We look forward to the release of our next App, so we'll have an excuse to run another competition! Stay tuned..

Yesterday we released '3D Bookshelf - Robin Hood Edition' for iPhone & iPod touch. The app is completely free and we're eager to see if it affects sales of the premium version '3D Bookshelf - Classic Literature Collection' in a measureable way.

It's only been 24 hours since it appeared on the App Store and it's already shot up the Free Book Charts in 23 countries. We weren't expecting to see it rise quite so quickly. If you're interested in seeing the app or getting in the mood for the new Robin Hood movie, download the app and let us know what you think.

For now, it's back to our latest creation. We're progressing well, but there's still lots to be done. For updates, you can follow us on twitter or subscribe to our mailing list.

It has been just over two months since we released 3D Bookshelf for iPhone & iPod touch, so we thought we'd share some of the stats on it's performance in that time.

Here goes..

• Total sales so far 25,000+ units.
• Featured by Apple in "What's Hot" in several Countries (US, Canada and others.)
• Featured by Apple in "New and Noteworthy" in several Countries (Australia, New Zealand and others.)
• So far, we've released four updates, adding a night reading mode, social connectivity, a UI visibility toggle and an additional ten books to the initial collection (now totaling 25 books).
• Zero(!) crash reports from the iTunes Connect crash report system. We're particularly happy with this. Kevin is going to follow up with some posts on how we managed this feat - if you're an aspiring iPhone developer you'll be very VERY interested in these!
• Global average App Store rating (taking in all regions): 4.5 out of 5 stars.

What's Next?

We're hard at work on our next app. We hope to have it ready by the end of May. If you like 3D Bookshelf, you'll REALLY like our next app. We're targeting iPhone, iPod touch & iPad initially.

We'll also be adding more books to 3D Bookshelf, of course. So stay tuned for updates, or you can follow us on twitter.

A few weeks ago, I promised an upcoming post on how we're going about marketing 3D Bookshelf. That post is being written at the moment and we hope to have it up on the site as soon as possible.

Before we get to that, I would like to thank everyone for their support so far. 3D Bookshelf is currently featured in "What's Hot" on the US App Store. This is a major milestone for Ideal Binary and we couldn't be happier.

We have more updates to the app coming. The next one will be submitted to Apple tomorrow morning. So stay tuned, and thanks again for your continued support.

- UPDATE -

A few hours after I published this post we got to our next milestone. We shot to number 1 in the US Paid Book chart! So far, so very good!

We're delighted to announce that 3D Bookshelf was approved in only 3 days and is now available for download on the App Store. You can find out more in the press release.

And if you've been thinking you might like to get hold of an Apple iPad, look no further. Visit 3DBookshelf.com to find out how you can win your very own iPad.

We would love your feedback! Please let us know what you think of the app.

Looking forward to your comments.