Posts Tagged ‘ebooks’
Books Every High Schooler Should Read
Leaving middle school, and heading into high school can be a big change for a lot of students. They may not be sure what to expect, and have possibly heard horror stories about freshmen. It’s not until students get into the swing of high school, until they learn that they love everything that is…
Read MoreReading Over the Summer
Depending on the student, some love reading and some would rather do many other things. No matter the student, reading is something that needs to be implemented more, whether it’s for pleasure or credit. Teachers don’t make their students read for no good reason, in fact they have plenty of good reasons. From…
Read MoreTop 6 TextbookHub Staff Summer Reads
The Look of the Book: Jackers, Covers, & Art at the Edges of Literature by Peter Mendelsund – I’ll nearly always pick up a book about book covers and this one concentrated largely on the twentieth century. I appreciated hearing from designers on their process and interactions (or not) with authors, as well as seeing…
Read MoreTextbookHub Announces Distribution Agreement with HarperCollins Publishers
TEMPE, Ariz., May 5, 2021 /PRNewswire/ – TextbookHub is pleased to announce a distribution agreement with HarperCollins Publishers to allow TextbookHub to sell and distribute all HarperCollins digital materials to the US K-12 marketplace. “Our schools expect quality materials and a deep reading experience for their students. With thousands of HarperCollins titles now available on our…
Read MoreBJU Press Partners With TextbookHub
BJU Press announces today an exclusive distribution agreement with TextbookHub and the development of a fully interactive product for its series of worktexts in time for the 2021/22 school year. “Worktexts are a great way for students to learn, practice and develop skill mastery. Our customers have asked us to deliver that experience in a…
Read MoreBook Metadata Basics
What is Book Metadata? Book metadata are the words and phrases used to describe a book. Examples of basic book metadata include the book title, the author name, or the ISBN. Book metadata might also include the author’s bio, a description of the book, or the publication date. Keywords that describe the book can also…
Read MoreHow Can eBooks Help Schools Now
Digital textbooks offer schools a number of advantages – especially when they want to stay flexible for on campus, remote or hybrid schedules. We had the pleasure of interviewing Anne Kellerman, Tech Solutions Engineer at Blackbaud, via Zoom and learning about what matters to her as an educator and also as an advisor to schools…
Read MoreFlexibility for On Campus, Remote and Hybrid Approaches
Everyone knows they need to be flexible and have all of their learning materials and resources with them wherever they go. That’s what we heard from Blackbaud Tech Solutions Engineer, Anne Kellerman. Anne is also an educator. She spent many years as the IT Director and Upper School Head at the Boys’ Latin School of…
Read MoreThe Uncertainty Principle: Budgets and More
It doesn’t take a serious mathematician to know that textbooks are expensive. We had the pleasure of interviewing Anne Kellerman, Tech Solutions Engineer at Blackbaud, via Zoom and learning about what matters to her as an educator and also as an advisor to schools about Blackbaud products. Anne was the Upper School…
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