Books, ebooks, and audiobooks, oh my!
Despite my affinity for audiobooks, looking at the book industry sales figures, it is clear print is still king. I agree, there’s nothing like turning the page of…
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Digital On-Demand Class Sets for Required Curriculum Books Now Available in Sora Student Reading App
CLEVELAND – To help educators provide students with the books they need as efficiently as possible, OverDrive Education announced the ... Read more
Capstone Interactive eBook Platform Relaunches With Enhanced Accessibility for Children
MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – August 17, 2022 – Capstone, an innovative learning company merging children’s content with easy-to-use edtech tools for ... Read more
Popular Ebooks and Audiobooks Keep Students Reading All Summer Long
CLEVELAND – May 6, 2022 – As schools seek innovative new strategies to increase reading and learning, teachers are using digital ... Read more
Sora “Content Bundles” Feature Empowers Educators to Easily Reserve Digital Books for Specific Students
CLEVELAND – January 18, 2022 – Educators who are looking for more efficient ways to support reading outcomes have a ... Read more
Digital Magazines Now Available to K-12 Schools Worldwide in Sora Reading App
In response to educators’ need for more digital content to support classroom learning, OverDrive Education now offers popular digital magazines ... Read more
How digital books connect vulnerable students with reading
The definition of success is a “favorable or desired outcome.” At Title I schools, where students are often at a disadvantage from the start, measuring success can look…
Delaware Ensures Every Student Has Digital Access to Curriculum and Choice Reading Titles
CLEVELAND – June 29, 2021 – With schools facing the challenge of unfinished learning due to the pandemic, one state ... Read more
Understanding ebooks: Which model is right for your district?
It’s been almost one year since the country shut down, and schools are still adapting to the new normal of remote and hybrid learning environments--with a newfound reliance…
Covid’S Hit on Education and Literacy Levels Will Impact a Generation – Can Ebooks Help Us?
Scholastic US research indicates that of children who had read an eBook, 26% of boys and 16% of girls said ... Read more
Survey: Increased ebook usage & value amid COVID-19
With COVID-19 altering nearly all aspects of daily life, including the way students learn, this survey sought insight from those ... Read more
With Print Supplies Disrupted, More Schools Adopt Digital Books
With a record number of students going back to school online, educators are urgently turning to digital books in place ... Read more
Gale Helps Charleston County School District Integrate Social Emotional Learning
With mental health issues and racial injustices on the rise, Gale, a Cengage company, is helping the Charleston County School ... Read more
Free access to Mackin’s Distance learning solution
Mackin, one of the world’s largest providers of print books, ebooks, audiobooks, and video is offering access to its ebook ... Read more
Free Remote Learning Resources
The coronavirus outbreak is especially difficult for parents with young children that may be balancing working from home and homeschooling ... Read more
Sora reading app extends no cost ebooks and audiobooks to remote learners
Sora is a K-12 student reading app through which students and educators can access ebooks and audiobooks from OverDrive Education’s ... Read more
Free access to English and Spanish eBook libraries
Benchmark Education is are now offering free access to their extensive collection of eBooks to families and educators. The library ... Read more
Over 1500 free MackinClassic ebooks available to all K-12 schools
The free MackinVIA digital content management system is available to all schools and is providing users with hundreds of free ... Read more
Free eTextbooks for Impacted Students
RedShelf, an edtech company that distributes digital course materials and provides an end-to-end platform for efficiently delivering those materials to ... Read more
Marketplace trend update: 4 ed-tech developments
Remaining a tech-savvy educator means keeping on top of the myriad changes and trends in education, how technology can support those trends, and how teaching and learning can…
Groups partner to leverage open tech standards
ClassLink announced a new single sign-on connection to Mackin Educational Resources, an adaptive learning platform for grades K-8. This new partnership will provide users with secure, OneClick access…
Lifeliqe Creator empowers teachers to create, publish interactive 3D content at ISTE
Lifeliqe, a learning and productivity platform for interactive 3D, VR, and AR, launched Lifeliqe Creator, a feature giving educators the power to create and publish interactive presentations and…
Amazon wins $30M contract to sell e-books to NYC schools
Amazon.com Inc. has won a $30 million contract to sell digital textbooks to New York City's public schools. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Panel for Educational…
Follett acquires ClassBook
Follett announced it has acquired ClassBook, a K-12 education online bookstore that serve schools, teachers, parents, and students. ClassBook provides private and parochial schools with 24/7 bookstores, streamlining…
8 ways to jump into eBooks
As districts increasingly move to digital content, many school leaders are chucking printed textbooks in favor of the more interactive content that eBooks and digital texts can offer.…
This is the hottest Common Core project in schools right now
From webinars to iTunesU courses, and from word-of-mouth to Twitter devotion, everyone in education is talking eBooks. And though eBooks can encompass a wide range of uses, some…
6 ways eBooks can support Common Core
As schools begin implementing the Common Core State Standards, experts say that this could be an opportune time for districts to explore eBooks, specifically because eBooks’ technology features…
What to consider for eBook implementation
eBook implementation is becoming crucial for schools and districts as part of the digital content movement. As mobile devices become a classroom staple, printed books are becoming a…
Children’s publisher developing app for eReading
A leading publisher of children's books is taking a big step into the electronic market: Scholastic Inc. is developing an app called Storia, which includes around 1,300 eBooks…
Study: eBook piracy is on the rise
As the popularity of eBooks and eReaders continues to increase, eBook piracy is also growing rapidly, ReadWriteWeb reports. According to Attributor, a company that develops anti-piracy and content…
Two eBooks cost more than Amazon hardcovers
Readers of eBooks might not be able to turn paper pages, lend their copies to friends, or file them away on living room bookshelves. But until now, they…
Amazon launches ‘Kindle for the Web’
Amazon has unveiled a program that allows Kindle electronic books to be sampled in a web browser, AFP reports. "Kindle for the Web" is featured on the online…
Survey: Children like eBooks, parents not so much
Children and teens are ready to try eBooks, with some thinking that a bigger selection of electronic texts would make reading for fun even more fun, according to…
Supporters of eBooks say they make readers less isolated, more social
Volumes have been written about technology's ability to connect people. But burying one's nose in a book has always been somewhat isolating, reports the Seattle Times—so what about…
Barnes & Noble launches eBook software for students
Barnes & Noble has joined the growing list of companies and organizations giving college students electronic alternatives to their pricey textbooks with the book retailer’s free NOOKstudy software…
Are standalone eBook readers doomed?
New research suggests that devices like the iPad, which let you read books and much more, are likely to dominate the market so fully that standalone eBook readers…
Vendors link e-textbook content with LMS software
As digital textbooks become more common on higher-ed campuses, providers are making it easy for professors to share textbook notes and resources with students through their class learning…
Online textbooks let students share notes across the globe
Florida State College at Jacksonville faculty have created 20 electronic textbooks that are accessible on a free online platform that lets students take notes in the margins, search…
Virtual Symposium examines worldwide growth of online access
Distance learning, open courseware, eBooks, wikis, and many other innovative technologies have forever affected education by connecting any topic in any discipline to any learner in any place.…
Ohio bill calls for electronic versions of textbooks
Saying they could save more than 50 percent off the cost of textbooks, some House Democrats want to give Ohio college students the chance to trade in their…