The open eBooks on iTunes U use the EPUB format, so they are readable on a wide variety of mobile devices. Rice University has joined Oxford University and The Open University in contributing free, ...

Open eBooks, a White House digital reading initiative and e-reading app that will make thousands of e-books available to children around the country, is launching today. The Open eBooks initiative was ...

I listened in on a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) webinar on July 15, 2015. The conversation centered on the Open Ebooks Initiative (announced by President Obama on April 30, 2015). In brief ...

Do you remember how it felt when you first read what would eventually become your favorite book? For many students, that’s a feeling that’s hard to come by—books aren’t always cheap or easily ...

“This looks just like Netflix,” my 9-year-old niece, Cameran, said as she scrolled through a new app on my iPhone. “Are these all books?” Typically, schools serving low-income students have a limited ...

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Last week, we broke news that Michelle Obama and the White House launched the Open eBooks app in an effort to provide $250 million worth of free digital texts to Title I, military base and special ...