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 is from the same people who produced Phrasr. It lets you use flickr photos to make picture books which you can publish or share. A nice tool for literacy.

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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.

The Newspaper Clipping Generator

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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! 

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.

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.

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