This week, there is an app based on Jay-Z’s book Decoded that lets users listen to songs and get interactive lyrics with Jay-Z’s annotations; as well as two new cookbook-related apps, from Martha Stewart and vegan cooking queen Isa Chandra Moskowitz.
Title: Martha Stewart Makes Cookies
Publisher/Developer: Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia/Callaway Digital Arts
Available: January 27
Price: $2.99 through Valentine’s Day
Background: Clarkson Potter published Martha Stewart's Cookies: The Very Best Treats to Bake and to Share in 2008.
Interactive features: The updated app has 26 new cookie recipes—including Pillowy Meringue Hearts—bringing the total to more than 90 recipes, as well as ideas for decorating for V-Day.
Title: Decoded
Publisher/Developer: Random House
Available: January 24
Price: $9.99
Background: Spiegel & Grau published Decoded by Jay-Z, a $35 hardcover, in November 2010.
Interactive features: Readers can listen to songs while using interactive lyrics with Jay-Z’s annotations, and view never-before-seen video. Upgrading to the full version ($24.99) gives readers the complete text of the book, with illustrations and photos.
Title: ABC's of Vegan with a Vengeance
Publisher/Developer: Mobifusion
Available: January 17
Price: $9.99
Background: Vegan with a Vengeance by Isa Chandra Moskowitz came out from Da Capo in 2005. Moskowitz has written many books on the subject and is widely regarded as one of the bestselling authors in the vegan cookbook world.
Interactive features: The BlackBerry app includes 125 recipes; and “Punk Points” tricks on how to work with vegan ingredients and how to inexpensively keep a vegan diet.
