A Story Before Bed

 
http://www.astorybeforebed.com/about

A Story Before Bed is an amazing service being offered, essentially an online book reading service. What you do is pick out a book and record yourself reading it to your child/grandchild directly into your webcam, then the child can go into the account any time they want(and as many times as they want) to play it back. The on screen design shows the pages of the book as the recording is playing on a secondary box on the screen(see above picture). They have a great selection ranging from less known low cost books to bestsellers priced slightly higher. The cost is very reasonable, and you can pay per book or do a subscription that starts at $29.95/year(not all the book are available for subscriptions, so make sure you check the subscription list before signing up).

Great for family members who live far away, parents who travel a lot for business, and deployed military parents.

Also, for those military parents who are deployed or deploying, A Story Before Bed is giving away free recordings: http://www.astorybeforebed.com/military