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Popular interactive,
educational
titles now available on
World Book eBooks

World Book Launches New E-book Platform
PRNewswire/ -- World Book, Inc., a leading
publisher of digital and print educational products-including World Book Online, comprising over 20
digital educational and reference products, and The
World Book Encyclopedia--is making many of its
popular educational titles available in e-book
format and accessible through a unique interactive
platform, World Book eBooks.
The e-book collection includes beautifully
illustrated, engaging titles that contain such
multimedia features as videos, audio, and games.
Subscribers to World Book eBooks receive 24/7
unlimited simultaneous access to the entire
collection, enabling school librarians and public
librarians to offer World Book eBooks at all times
to all users––no holds or waiting. An "early
adopter" subscription includes updates and
revisions to e-books, as well as all new titles that
are added to the site during their subscription.

the iPad®, Google Nexus 7™, and Samsung:
Galaxy Note® 10.1, and Samsung: Galaxy Note®
2 10.1. All titles support the EPUB3 standard, the
accepted global distribution format for e-books
developed by the International Digital Publishing
Forum.
"The launch of our e-book platform is a necessary
and exciting expansion of our current format
offerings," says World Book, Inc. President Don
Keller. "Our users increasingly require access to
information in digital form that can be
conveniently viewed on various devices. World
Book is meeting these needs by significantly
broadening accessibility to our content while
continuing to create trustworthy, quality
educational products that are fun and engaging for
readers—and in the format they want."

The Fall 2013 collection offers curriculumcorrelated titles from several series, including
Animal Lives, Building Blocks of Mathematics,
Building Blocks of Science, Early Peoples, Explore
the Universe, Inventions and Discoveries,
Learning Ladders, Living Green, and Trek's
Travels, with new titles to be uploaded to the site
on an ongoing basis. Subscribers will read the ebooks using World Book's customized online
viewer.

World Book's e-book platform includes a
customized online viewer that provides an optimal
reading experience for students of all ages. "Our ebooks are not just digital replicas of the print
books," says World Book's Digital Products
Manager, Cassie Mayer. "We've created the
platform to be a comprehensive classroom and
library tool, just like all World Book digital
products. The e-books are fun, colorful, and
interactive, and the site will connect readers to
other titles that may interest them through our
'World Book Recommends' feature."

The platform may be accessed from any Internetready computer, as well as such popular tablets as

E-book usage in the U.S. has skyrocketed in recent
years as more affordable tablets and e-readers have

become available. With the rise in popularity of ebooks, schools and libraries have worked to meet
the unprecedented demand by expanding their
collections.
In developing its e-book platform, World Book
surveyed students, teachers, parents, librarians, and
library patrons to determine what such users want
and expect from e-books. World Book applied this
feedback in designing the World Book eBooks
platform to help ensure its utility and appeal.
World Book will offer its e-book suite as a
subscription. Schools and libraries that sign up
during the initial launch will receive an early
adopter discount. Visit the website at
http://bit.ly/worldbookebooks.
ABOUT WORLD BOOK
World Book, Inc. sets the standard in publishing
accurate, current, and reliable reference and
learning materials for children and adults. Based
in Chicago, World Book is committed to creating
educational products in digital and print forms
that meet the highest standards of editorial
excellence. This commitment has resulted in a wide
range of products, including the quintessential
World Book Encyclopedia and World Book
Online--a comprehensive and authoritative
solution meeting the diverse information needs of
students, educators, public library patrons, and
families. Visit World Book's website at
www.worldbook.com .