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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 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 free app provides a collection of 25 stories with audio.

Fantastic video from Luis Perez about adding alt tag descriptions to images in Book Creator. Between that, audio narration, text, and video, Book Creator may be the ultimate app for reaching all learners.

Great list of examples for how teachers can incorporate Book Creator into the curriculum.

Create custom ePubs from Evernote notes - including custom covers,

Apple's help page about creating ePub files with Pages.