Follett Launches Simon & Schuster ebooks to Schools

MCHENRY, Ill., Dec. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Follett today announced a partnership with Simon & Schuster that makes more than 450 PreK-12 titles available in ebook format on Titlewave®, Follett's powerful collection development, search and ordering tool.  Follett now offers more than 250,000 ebook titles through Titlewave to schools nationwide.

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Simon & Schuster titles will span the full range of popular school titles from pre-school picture books to chapter books for early readers to higher-level fiction and nonfiction for young adults. Specific titles available include "Click, Clack, Moo: Cows That Type" by Coreen Cronin, "Hatchet" by Gary Paulsen, "Out Of My Mind" by Sharon Draper, "Fahrenheit 451" by Ray Bradbury, "Angela's Ashes" by Frank McCourt and "For Whom The Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway.

"The addition of Simon & Schuster's ebook titles reflects our mission of helping educators engage students with content and technology that impact student achievement," said Todd Litzsinger, president, Follett's Content Solutions and Services.  "Our customers have expressed strong interest in Simon & Schuster titles, and we are pleased to offer them in our expanding ebook catalog."

Simon & Schuster, a part of CBS Corporation, is a global leader in the field of general interest publishing, dedicated to providing the best in fiction and nonfiction for consumers of all ages, across all printed, electronic, and audio formats.  Earlier this year, Follett announced ebook partnerships with Random House and Hachette Book Group.

With books increasingly moving to digital formats, Follett has been at the forefront of the transition with tools and solutions that help customers access and integrate the new forms of content within schools. FollettShelf® is the digital bookshelf most used by schools to access ebooks. In addition, Follett Enlight provides students with a consistent and easy-to-use ebook reading environment on their desktops, tablets and smartphones, and allows users to add notes and highlights to an ebook and then view them anywhere they have access to their FollettShelf account.  Today, more than 29 million students and educators in 42,000 schools worldwide use ebooks provided by Follett. 

To learn more about Follett PreK-12 products and services, visit www.follettlearning.com.

About Follett Corporation
Since 1873, Follett has served as the trusted partner in education for students and educators at all levels of learning. Today Follett delivers physical and digital learning materials, retail services, school content and management systems to more than 70,000 early childhood, primary and secondary schools, and on more than 1,000 college campuses. Headquartered in River Grove, Illinois, Follett is a $2.7 billion privately held company.

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