Robot Media was awarded yesterday the Digital Innovation Award at Digital World Book New York for mobile app Robot 13.

Robot Media -through its comic book branch Robot Comics- was the only European company in competition and the only company nominated twice at the first edition of the Digital Book World Publishing Innovation Award.

Robot Media’s Android and iPhone app Robot 13 finally won the Comics category. Other nominees in the same category included the Amazon Kindle bestseller Tumor and Disney Epic Mickey Digicomics.

Robot 13 is no stranger to success. The Android version of the multi-platform app was previously featured by Google in the Android Market, reaching 200,000 downloads in a few weeks. It was the first comic book app featured by Google.

Created by Thomas Hall and Daniel Bradford, Robot 13 is an amnesiac robot who battles mythic monsters. Robot Media brought Robot 13 comic book adventures to mobile devices using transition and vibration effects to create an unique experience.

Released in early 2010, Robot 13 was one of the 200 apps that Robot Media produced the past year. “Mobile devices provide new storytelling possibilities where experience and content go hand in hand.”, states Robot Media’s founder Hermés Piqué. “Robot 13 was one of our first releases that explored this and our goal is to continue to explore it further. 2011 will be an exciting year for digital content!”

About Robot Media

Robot Media creates content-oriented apps that leverage the power of the most popular mobile platforms. It has produced more than 200 hundred apps with more than 2 million downloads worldwide. Established in 2009, Robot Media is based in Barcelona, Spain.

http://www.robotmedia.net

About Robot 13

Written by Thomas Hall and illustrated by Daniel Bradford (Blacklist Studios), Robot 13 is an independent comic book about the odyssey of an amnesiac robot destined to fight against mythic monsters. It was published in 2009 and adapted for mobiles by Robot Media in 2010. The first chapter is available for free both for Android and iPhone.

About Digital Book World

Digital Book World is a publishing community who organizes the conference of the same name. The first edition is currently being held in New York from the 24th to 26th of January and includes representatives from all the major companies of the publishing world. The Publishing Innovation Awards, which celebrate the best book apps, opened the conference.

Digital Book World 2011 is a New York conference and exposition targeted at trade publishers. Robot Media, through its comic book branch Robot Comics, has been nominated twice (out of 7) in the Comics category for Robot 13 and Valentine.

Robot 13

Written by Thomas Hall with art by Daniel Bradford, Robot 13 narrates the journey of an amnesiac robot who battles mythic monsters. It has been downloaded more than 200,000 times both on Android and iPhone and was the first comic book app featured by Google in the Android Market.

Valentine

A fantasy epic about a soldier who stumbles across an ancient conflict between beings more powerful than humanity can imagine. Written by Alex de Campi with art by Christine Larsen, Valentine is available in 13 languages, translated by the community through the use of the Creative Commons license.

Described as “pure awesome” by AndroidHeadlines.com and rated 4.5/5 by Android users, the Scott Pilgrim Android app is initially available in Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and UK.

Scott Pilgrim’s precious little app is published by the innovative HarperCollins imprint, Fourth Estate, and developed by Robot Comics/Robot Media, the leading comics provider for Android.

Robot Comics has translated Bryan Lee O’Malley’s comic book to mobiles through movement, sound and vibration, creating an original reading experience tailored for Android devices.  An experience which also becomes interactive and social when readers discover secret content carefully hidden in the scenes of the comic, as well as use an in-app commenting system that utilizes Twitter and Facebook to share the clues.

Scott Pilgrim is the second mobile comic featured by Google in their Android marketplace. The first one was the indie hit Robot 13 by Thomas Hall and Daniel Bradford, also produced by Robot Comics, which has been downloaded by almost 200,000 Android users to date -a number rarely reached by print editions.

With a launching price of £3.49 per volume, well below the print version, the Scott Pilgrim app is on its way to become the best-selling mobile comic for Android devices, and the first of many mainstream comic titles that finds a new audience in the Android Market.

The Scott Pilgrim app is also available for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Visit http://www.scottpilgrimtheapp.com for more information.

An app released by Robot Comics, the comics branch of Robot Media, has become the first comic app featured in the Android Market.

The app features Robot 13, a comic by Thomas Hall & Daniel Bradford, and combines transition effects with vibration to create an unique reading experience.

After being featured Robot 13 was downloaded by more than 50,000 additional Android users in just a few days. These are some of their comments:

“Absolutely brilliant. Fantastic illustration and the way it moves from page to page is brilliant. Never seen anything like it before!” -Laura

“This is so cool. It’s the perfect balance between interactive and traditional comic book. It’s a lot of fun to read.” -Aaron

“Very cool I don’t really like comics but this is something I could get addicted to” -john

“Excellent way of writing a story. Love the extras like vibrations and zoom. Awesome. Purely Awesome.” -Cesar

Curious? Download Robot 13 #1, available for free both for Android and iPhone.