A collection of sites for ebook downloads that are on the up and up.

Learn iBook Author - YouTube

embeddable uploadable flip books

Biblioteca digital

free periodicals dating back to the 19th century

The Literature Map will give you the names of other authors who have books that have similar themes to those of the author you chose. The closer the authors are to each other on the literature map, the more likely it is that you will like both author's books.

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.

A superb site with animated videos of Shakespeare plays. Watch short explanations about some of the most famous plays and watch videos exploring the characters. The text that goes with the videos is useful and child-friendly.

Martin Burrett 03 Apr 12 05:24:20A great poetry site for children. See poems on a range of topics and most poems have an audio of the poet reading their poems

"Explore great titles from our growing digital library"

"2EPUB allows you to convert PDF, doc and other types of documents & books to ePub format, the standard format for ebooks, supported by almost every reading device including iPad, iPhone, iPod, Sony Reader, BeBook, Nook, Kobo (for Kindle use .mobi). Input formats: doc, docx, epub, fb2, html, lit, lrf, mobi, odt, pdb, pdf, prc, rtf, txt. Output formats: epub, fb2, lit, lrf, mobi"

Academic e-texts by topic

"MP3, iPOD and DVD audiobooks (adventures, detectives, horrors, classics, children, non-fictions, philosophy, etc.) for you to download and enjoy. Every audio book produced and recorded by professional actors/narrators and experienced directors. No computerised text-to-voice convertions have been used."