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This is a great article about using iPads to create literature circles.

This is a great site full of widgets to use when creating publications using iBooks Author. 

This is a great list of options for publishing student work either as PDF, ePub, or other document format.

This is an incredible app for students with special needs. It connects to the Bookshare.org database and does require a membership ID. However, students and organizations who qualify have access to a tremendous resource.  "From within Read2Go, you can browse, search, download, and read books directly from Bookshare using your Bookshare membership, as well as read DAISY books from other sources. The app gives you full control over visual choices for font size and color, background and highlighting color, and text-to-speech preferences. Read2Go features word-by-word highlighting for multi-modal reading."

The Virginia Department of Education helped to create this list of apps for students. You can download them from the Apple App Store. Some of them include digital texts from Pearson publishers.

This is a great review of a standard app - iBooks. It also includes a link to a great podcast about alternate ways to integrate iBooks into the classroom

Much like Zamzar, this web site converts files between formats. Could be a great way to create ePubs for students.

This is a great article about the evolution of reading. Given the influx of iPads and eReaders into classrooms, the concept of "books" is certainly changing.

This app is free until April, though know that some content becomes an in-app purchase. Bookabi allows students to create their own storybooks with 2D and 3D characters. They can upload their own photos and pictures plus save and share their final projects.

This free app provides 15 illustrated fairytales for younger children that includes audio.

This app allows you to read and access files from a variety of sources. It is free until 9/10/2012 and could be a great research tool.

This article from I Education Apps Review lists out a series of apps to use for creating custom digital content. Not all are free, but the list presents some interesting options.

The LitCharts Library provides chapter summaries to some of the most frequently read books in high school English curricula. It also features an iPhone App for reading. Teachers should be aware of this site as it bills itself as "the faster, downloadable alternative to SparkNotes."

This is another online ePub converter. By uploading a Word, PDF, or other text file, you can convert that file to an ePub format for iPad, Kindle, etc.

This free app provides a collection of 25 stories with audio.

For the moment, ScienceWerkz is free - after that $.99. These iBooks provide interactive content for the study of middle school science.

From screen casting to audio to book creation apps, this is a pretty comprehensive list of digital storytelling apps.

Reading app designed for younger students to support their reading. Comes with teacher tools.