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  Kno Joins Forces With Educational Publishers Wiley To Produce Interactive Text Ebooks.

  739 readersKno, publishers of educational ebooks have just announced a deal with John Wiley & Son, a global educational educational publisher to bring out a wide range of higher educational electronic text books. This deal which will add hundreds of titles to Kno’s already impressive list of digital text books is an important step forward for bringing

• Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Licenses Living Books

  420 readersAs it comes out of a financial restructuring that will leave it with less debt, educational publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has licensed its Living Books interactive, educational books to San Francisco-based education technology company Wanderful.

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  Valve lets teachers ‘teach with portals’

  477 readersNow you’re teaching with portals! E-books aren’t the only electronic medium that can be used educationally, and game publisher Valve has just announced an educational initiative to turn its Portal 2 game into a teaching tool. Teachers will be granted a limited educational edition of Steam including a free copy of Portal 2, and administrative

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  Valve lets teachers ‘teach with portals’

  366 readersNow you’re teaching with portals! E-books aren’t the only electronic medium that can be used educationally, and game publisher Valve has just announced an educational initiative to turn its Portal 2 game into a teaching tool. Teachers will be granted a limited educational edition of Steam including a free copy of Portal 2, and administrative

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  Challenging Amazon

  577 readers Amazon is such a tough competitor (“how tough is it?”) that a consortium of German booksellers, the world’s largest publisher and one of the world’s largest telecomm companies have banded together to fight it.   The bookstore chains Thalia, Weltbild and Hugendubel have partnered with Bertelsmann (Random House parent) and Deutsche Telekom, parent to T-Mobile and other

• SPi Global/Laserwords Acquire Educational Publishing House Tighe Publishing Services

  643 readers [Press Release] SPi Global pursues K-12 opportunities with acquisition November 8, 2012, Tinley Park, Illinois. SPi Global, through its subsidiary Laserwords, has acquired Tighe Publishing Services, a full-service educational development house in the K-12 educational marketplace. This acquisition positions Laserwords to take advantage of the burgeoning opportunities in the educational publishing business in the United States. “Tighe’s editorial,

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  Classroom Library Co. Promises One-Stop Shop for Teachers

  796 readers“Tell us what you need and we’ll come up with a solution to it.” By Dennis Abrams Benjamin Conn, founder and former owner of school book distributor Knowledge Industries, Inc., and his wife Marla Conn, a former schoolteacher and president of the educational consulting firm Readability, have started a new educational distributorship and publisher for grades K-8,

• New Online Educational Library For Jewish Schools

  119 readers [Press Release] A First-of-its-Kind Online Library for Jewish Schools in the United States Israel’s Center for Educational Technology (CET) to Launch Online Library for Jewish Schools in the United States in Partnership With Behrman House Behrman House, the leading publisher of textbooks and digital learning materials for Jewish religious schools in North America, has entered a collaborative agreement

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  Grids Interactive Founder Sam Berman Talks Book Apps

  1440 readersSam Berman is the founder of Grids Interactive, a kids book app developer. He caught up with eBookNewser to discuss app content, pricing and competition. EBN: What kind of content makes for a good kids book app? SB: As a developer, I want to publish a story that encompasses as many aspects to appeal to children as

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  The Problem with Children’s Books: A Parent’s Perspective

  677 readersWe recently had our Family Day long weekend, and the Beloved and I spent some of it at the home of his sister. She’s the mother of a toddler and a newborn, and while we were visiting, the subject of books came up. I enjoyed having the opportunity to pick the brain of a parent