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Publishers Contribute $250 Million Worth of Free eBooks for Low-Income Students in New Federal Program

April 30, 2015
By Michael Cader

President Obama will announce later today two new steps in the ConnectED efforts. The Open eBooks initiative will make ebooks said to be worth over $250 million available for free to low-income students, through an ereader app developed by the New York Public Library. All of the five largest trade publishers are participating, along with Candlewick, Bloomsbury and Lee & Low. Macmillan is providing unlimited access to approximately 2,500 titles for K-12 readers; S&S is contributing access to their entire catalog of books for children 4 to 14, comprising 3,000 titles; Penguin Random House is promising an “extensive offering” of titles; […]

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