Reasons to support Storynory

A big thank you from Storynory to everyone who has either donated or bought one of our apps or our new Katie and the Witch’s Swap story.

We receive some really generous donations and I can’t tell you how much they help us and boost our morale. Unfortunately it’s still a big struggle for us to make ends meet.

Of course we’ve seen the comments from children complaining that they can’t afford the $1.99 for the Katie and the Witch’s Swap story.

First of all, I would like to reassure everyone that we are not breaking our promise to the world to provide a free story every week. We’ve kept that promise since November 1995, and we mean to keep on keeping it!

In fact, Storynory is so popular, that our servers provide half a million downloads of our MP3 files every month.

We don’t just provide free audio stories – we commission (and pay for) original music – and original artwork. And of course we do pay our actors!

Katie and the Witch’s Swap has 17 original pictures. It took our artist a month to do them. I spent more time than I care to mention programming the app. This is an experiment.

Our next few apps will be riddles with an interactive element. We will see if people feel less outraged that we are daring to charge a small amount for them and we will see what works best in the Apple Store.

We also considering making some apps out of our free stories. Perhaps people will pay a small amount for an enhanced version of the Snow Queen, if it has numerous beautiful pictures and the audio is synced with the text. We need to find out.

In the meantime, if any mums and dads are having doubts about whether it is worth their while to stump up $1.99 for the app or the mp3 download – or perhaps to donate a little bit more – here are some reasons to support Storynory.

Storynory expands your child’s vocabulary.
Storynory expands your child’s imagination.
Storynory expands your child’s cultural outlook on the world.

And if that’s not enough, Storynory is used by thousands of kids around the world in countries like Indonesia, Vietnam, and even Afghanistan where they don’t even have the option to pay. Teachers spend hours downloading the stories over slow internet connections so that they can use them to teach English.

Your $1.99 or your donation is not just for what your family gets out of it -it’s for what the WORLD gets out of it – for FREE. Help us to help the world.

So do please consider supporting Storynory.