Do you have kids ages 3 – 8? Do you teach in a primary/elementary school? Are you a carer for young children? Then we’d like to hear from you!

Do you and your child love books? Are you interested in literacy? Are you keen to see children engaged with reading? Are you interested in new technologies that could help children learning to read? Then we need your help.

We are looking for a number of parents/carers/teachers to join our review panel to trial our newly launched children’s ebooks. Click here to see the books available.

We will give you access to all of the books on wizz-e.com for free. No cost. No risk to you. In return all we ask is for your/your child’s thoughts.

If you are interested in being part of this review panel then email melanie@ybc.tv with the subject title ‘wizz-e’ and she will send you a login account and password to get access.

This offer is closing shortly. So act NOW and give your child free access to a fantastic product that will support their reading! Can you afford to miss out? Email melanie now.

I don’t know about you but I LOVE history and finding anything I can about the early 20th century. By sheer coincidence I stumbled upon a 1925 Fashion Book - an eBook. I was thrilled, not only because it was vintage art/fashion picture book from the twenties, but it was an eBook! The fact that I could (for 8.95) instantly download a book that usually take hours scouring Ebay. 

This is the future of research. Being able to look up a book on popular sites such as WorldCat, GoogleBooks, or even just the local library,  then being able to download a chapter, the bibliography or the whole book. Faster research means faster results. In a world where the day-to-day seems to have less time to get things done, the ability to use ebooks for research is key. 

 

Olaf Ernst says “the reason behind the popularity of ebooks in research compared with other types of books is simple: ‘Researchers already do their day-to-day work online. In consumer markets you really have to convince them of a different way of reading books,’ he explained.

James Gray, CEO & president of Ingram Digital Group, which has the e-book platform MyiLibrary, agreed. ‘Universities and corporate research libraries are moving to a preference for e-books. They are very familiar with digital content,’ he observed. ‘STM content is very much ahead at the moment but we are starting to see these trends with social-science and humanities books too.’ (Research Information)

 

The trend is expanding, from scientific researchers to libraries, students and textbooks. This great “new” market has some of the worlds leading journals behind it as well. From Ebsco Host you can search all the ejournals online and therefore all the articles within them. Most students have free access to this service and researchers as well.

The fact children have access to this technology, even for a simple story of Red Riding Hood will pave the road for them to carry out the excitement of learning throughout their school careers.