Welcome to Mobile App Editions
“We’re always in your pocket or purse”
About Mobile App Editions
About Mobile App Editions
Founded in Lincoln, Nebraska in 2024, Mobile App Editions is pioneering the next generation of publishing by re-imagining the very nature of content for the digital age.
Our innovative process moves beyond standard e-books and PDFs, treating the smartphone home screen not as a simple communication device but as a dynamic new canvas for creative publishing – and eliminating the need for yet another digital device for consumers (the e-reader). We transform published content into integrated, interactive mobile apps that engage readers with features that go far beyond a printed page.
By leveraging the full potential of smartphone technology, we offer a truly modern reading experience across all spectrums of demographics. Home screens now become a portal to a living, breathing narrative, complete with visual content and interactive presentations. This innovative approach allows us to bring content to life in a format that seamlessly integrates with users’ new digital life-style, making reading more accessible, engaging, and personal.
For print and digital publishers everywhere, the mobile app format offers a fresh, dynamic way to connect with a mobile-first audience. Let us help you start your journey into the world of mobile app publishing, where the only device your readers will ever need to enjoy your titles will already be in their pockets and purses!
To expand our innovations even further, we have gathered together a special group of our growing reader base to act as reviewers of the different mobile-app publishing formats. What we learn will be available to any interested print or digital publisher – in a mobile-app formatted research report, of course!
What We Are Made Of
Source: Hybrid Mobile Apps in the Google Play Store: An Exploratory Investigation (Multiple Authors)
One of the most intriguing challenges in mobile apps development is its fragmentation with respect to mobile platforms (e.g., Android, Apple iOS, Windows Phone). Large companies like IBM and Adobe and a growing community of developers advocate hybrid mobile apps development as a possible solution to mobile platforms fragmentation.
The mobile apps market now counts more than two-millions apps, downloaded billions of times per year from a number of dedicated app stores (with Google Play Store and Apple App Store as clear market dominators). However, code written for one mobile platform (e.g., the Java code of an Android app) cannot be used on another (e.g., the Objective-C code of an Apple iOS app), making the development and maintenance of native apps for multiple platforms one of the major technical challenges affecting the mobile development community.
Hybrid mobile apps are developed by using standard web technologies (i.e., HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and all service requests to the Platform API are mirrored by a cross-platform JavaScript API. In this context, a hybrid development framework (e.g., Apache Cordova) can be defined as a software component that allows developers to create cross-platform web-based mobile apps by providing (i) a native wrapper for containing the web-based code, and (ii) a generic JavaScript API that bridges all the service requests from the web-based code to the corresponding platform API.
And most important: Mobile App Editions (HMA’s) do not need to be downloaded from an app store!
(Opening January 1, 2026)
Add the Global Reading Icon to your home screen !
Add the Global Reading Network icon to the home screen of your smartphone. Use your mobile browser and follow the “add to home screen” menu function. The process can take up to 1-2 minutes depending on the model of your phone. The icon will appear on your phone with the page title underneath the icon.
(Note: The iOs system MAY substitute a generic icon for the icon above. We have no control over the substitution process.
It’s an iOs thing!)
Call for Creative Visual Stories
Call for Creative Creative Visual Stories
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Mobile App Books™ (an imprint of Home Screen Media, LLC) invites authors, artists, and creators of innovative 2D and 3D visual stories to submit for publication review and inclusion in The Mobile Reading Room (the mobile-app publishing network of Home Screen Media, LLC.)
We are seeking stories that push the boundaries of visual narrative and engage readers through compelling visuals, dynamic interactions, and immersive storytelling designed specifically for the mobile-app reader experience.
Who Should Apply
We welcome submissions from a diverse range of authors, visual artists, illustrators, animators, and designers from around the world. Whether you are an emerging or established creator, we encourage you to propose your unique vision for storytelling.
What to Submit
Your initial submission should be a complete, self-contained visual story stored on YouTube (private) or Vimeo (your private account). You MUST submit ONLY the link to your work. We are interested in both 2D and 3D narrative experiences, including but not limited to:
Illustrated stories: Visual short-stories, comics, or animated narratives
Animated stories: Short-form 2D or 3D animations, motion comics, or animated sequences of classic short-stories from historic authors such as Hans Christian Andersen, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Florence Holbrook – just to name a few.
Interactive stories: Works that invite reader interaction, such as “choose-your-own-adventure” narratives, AR-enhanced tales, or stories with embedded multimedia.
Digital picture books: Visually rich and interactive stories optimized for reading for all ages OR applicable to classroom applications and visual learning.
Submission Themes and Format
Submissions do not need to adhere to a single theme. We are particularly interested, however, in historic/classic stories that are visually driven. We ask that you submit a single cohesive project, not a portfolio of stories.
Please include the following:
A project pitch: A brief, 300-word maximum, outlining your story’s concepts, narratives, visual styles, and the audience you feel is the intended readership.
Visual story samples: If your story includes 2D-3D elements, please provide a link to a video preview (e.g., YouTube or Vimeo) if available, or a 2D-3D clip sample (a maximum of one minute in length).
Artist biography: A brief third-person bio of about 50–70 words.
How to Submit
Please email your submission to submission-mrr@hsm.llc with the subject line: “Mobile Reading Room Visual Story Submission”.
Compensation and Publication
Publishing: The Mobile App Books™ platform is structured as a mobile-app network, not a traditional digital library. Each published feature/story is a standalone, functional Hybrid Mobile App with an independent and unique home screen icon which may be added to a readers smartphone home screen for direct story access.
Our audience of mobile readers “rent” their reads, not purchase them. Various rental periods are available.
As a network, our system has an international reach where your work has the potential of reaching a diverse population eager (we believe) for the new world of mobile reading experiences.
Compensation: Home Screen Media, LLC retains from 4% to 9% of the net rental fee for each title we publish (it varies with the selected rental period). Authors/Contributors receive the balance as royalties which are paid quarterly. A/C may withdraw their work at any time for any reason they wish. We MUST, however, finish a rental period if the work is in use.
Deadline:
Submissions are ongoing from the date of this call. We look forward to reviewing your creative works!