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craete your own interactive magazine for free. 

" Expand your library with 3,392 stunning nonfiction and fiction books covering all subjects for PK-8. Lexile®, AR ATOS™, Fountas & Pinnell, and DRA leveled books from 24 publishers are perfect for differentiated instruction (most can be read on iPad®, iPhone®, and iPod touch®). Assign books to students, use for independent/shared reading or assess comprehension with quizzes. Use with interactive whiteboards or computers in media centers, labs, classrooms, home, and elsewhere. No more wear and tear, lost books, limited copies, or cramped bookshelves. Organize, personalize and access virtual bookshelves anywhere-anytime; share anonymously with others. See sample books in the READ section. Engaging online writing and publishing tool inspires students to write. Use for creative writing, book responses, reports, independent/shared writing, writing workshops, or author share sessions. Books can be printed, privately published to teachers and/or published by an adult for everyone to see (note: we review each book before it appears on the site). Share published books with friends, family and others. Use our large picture library or your own images. Use our premium publisher books as Mentor Text. Create custom books for your curriculum. Watch a two-minute demo of our writing tool."

There are numerous sites that are now offering Tutorials and how-to guides for creating ebooks in iBook Author. As teachers are now comfortable with the idea of creating their own e-textbooks more and more people are looking for resources to learn how to build touch enabled books that take full advantage of the iPad capabilities. Inserting video and high resolution photographs is one thing but how about inserting 3D manipulatives and models that are touch sensitive. Here is a list of some of the resources online. If you know of other good ones please add them in the comments section and we will update the list.

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Publish Twitter, Facebook, Google+ or any web content into an online newspaper

Create impressive newspapers using the popular teacher-made Word templates. Type in your stories, and the news flows into formatted columns! 

Announcing... a revolutionary digital publishing service that helps clients market and distribute print materials in easy-to-read digital editions via e-mail and the Internet using only a standard Web browser! Nxtbook Media - LLC helps publishers provide digital versions of their magazines, catalogs, travel and other collateral. If you want to lower your distribution costs, reach a wider audience and increase advertising revenues, Nxtbook Media will convert your printed magazine into an online magazine, also known as a digital magazine or e-magazine. We can also optimize print catalogs, travel and other collateral materials into digital versions.

Guzzle reads hundreds of feeds every second to get you the latest news about stuff you care about.

Your Blog or Website as a PDF and eBook Example PDFs created using Zinepal. They look great on iPads too! Zinepal also creates eBooks in Kindle, Mobipocket and ePub formats.

Make your own magazine.

Explore a world of publications by people and publishers alike. Collect, share and publish in a format designed to make your documents look their very best.

create simple booklets as online presentations

"Convert PDFs into stylish page flip books FlipSnack is an online flipping book software that allows you to convert PDF documents into Flash page flip digital publications. It's the ideal solution for those who wish to embed a book, magazine, catalog, newspaper, portfolio or any other kind of document into a website or blog. Once created, you can embed your flipping book collection, download them or share them on social networking websites such as Facebook. P.S. With FlipSnack you can upload several documents at once, allowing you to embed not only one, but multiple page flip publications in the same Flash widget. "