Educators On the Open eBooks App: Needs Work | School Library Journal

abernard102@gmail.com 2016-03-19

Summary:

"Open eBooks, an e-reader app that makes thousands of books available to children in need for free, launched on February 24. President Obama announced the nongovernmental effort in support of the ConnectED Initiative. The initiative’s partners—Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), First Book, The New York Public Library, and digital books distributor Baker & Taylor—received financial support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and content from publishers Bloomsbury, Candlewick, Cricket Media, Hachette, HarperCollins, Lee & Low, Macmillan, National Geographic, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster. The specific books in the collection were selected by the DPLA Curation Corps ..."

Link:

http://www.slj.com/2016/03/industry-news/educators-on-the-open-ebooks-app-needs-work/#_

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.comment oa.apps oa.tools oa.books oa.education

Date tagged:

03/19/2016, 09:09

Date published:

03/19/2016, 05:09