Other Things

(a blog)

Other Things is the blog of Things Made Out Of Other Things, makers of Eucalyptus – the library, to go – for the iPhone and iPod Touch.

Megastars and Ghouls

We're very pleased that the first apps built On Eucalyptus to be available worldwide are out now! Megastar Mysteries and Too Ghoul For School are book series by children's book publishers Egmont. Aimed at kids aged 7-12, they're both mystery series. Megastar Mysteries follows Rosie Parker and friends as they unintentionally stumble upon mysteries to solve, all somehow involving their favorite celebrities. Too Ghoul For School follows of a group of pupils at St. Sebastian's School, built on the boggy remains of a medieval plague pit, and their yucky, gunky adventures against ghoulish adversaries. All the books have a ...

Peter James

Some great news! The second(ish) iPhone app (after the first Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy apps) embedding the reader from Eucalyptus is now out worldwide, with the exception of the USA.

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The app contains Dead Tomorrow, Peter James' Sunday Times bestseller from his Roy Grace series of detective novels, also released in paperback and audio forms last week. It's rapidly climbing paperback bestseller charts as I write. The app is £4.99, €5.99, or your local iTunes equivalent, and with it you can also purchase and read the other four books in the Roy Grace series. If you're unfamiliar, ...

Don't Panic…

Some very exciting news! In conjunction with the publishers Pan Macmillan and Missing Ink Studios, the first book apps embedding the reader from Eucalyptus are now on sale! They're available worldwide, except in the USA and Canada.

If you're a fan - and probably even if you're not - you'll have worked out from this blog post's title what books I'm talking about: all the books in Douglas Adams' seminal Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy trilogy, reissued to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the first book's publication.

There are five apps available - one for each book in the ...