Baker & Taylor, the world’s largest distributor of digital and physical books and entertainment products, announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital media circulation platform.
The brand new pilot program will allow Baker & Taylor’s K-12 customers to purchase access to many popular, classic and award-winning Simon & Schuster ebooks for school-aged readers. Some of the titles included in the pilot are Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson, Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.
“Even more than their parents, young readers are very comfortable with digital content, so the addition of children’s and teens’ ebooks from such a large and influential publisher as Simon & Schuster is a welcome development in our industry,” said George Coe, President of Baker & Taylor’s Library & Education division. “Children now have more ways to discover books that engage their minds, and can do so on platforms that are familiar and easy to use.”
Michael Kozlowski is the editor-in-chief at Good e-Reader and has written about audiobooks and e-readers for the past fifteen years. Newspapers and websites such as the CBC, CNET, Engadget, Huffington Post and the New York Times have picked up his articles. He Lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.