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School Libraries & Classrooms: Baker & Taylor/Axis 360 Begins Ebook Pilot with Simon and Schuster, 450 Titles Available

December 9, 2013 by Gary Price

From Baker & Taylor:

Baker & Taylor announced today that through a pilot program it will now be able to make available more than 450 popular ebook titles from Simon & Schuster imprints to classrooms and school libraries using the Axis 360 digital media circulation platform.
Simon & Schuster titles are now available from Baker & Taylor via Title Source 360.
Some of the titles included in the pilot are Click, Clack, Moo: Cows that Type by Doreen Cronin and illustrated by Betsy Lewin,Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, Forge by Laurie Halse Anderson, Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt and For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway.

Read the Complete Announcement
See Also: New Pilot from Simon & Schuster Makes Selected Ebooks Available For PK-12 Classroom Use (September 24, 2013)

Filed under: Libraries, News, School Libraries

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.

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