Follett Adds Penguin Titles to K-12 E-Book Service

Follett is adding 17,000 titles from Penguin Group to its e-book service for K-12, Titlewave.

Titlewave provides tools for searching for and ordering electronic books. The service currently includes about 270,000 e-book titles for K-12 school libraries from Hachette, Macmillan, Penguin, Random House and Simon & Schuster.

Some of the titles that will now be available trough Titlewave include Of Mice and Men (John Steinbeck), James and the Giant Peach (Roald Dahl), Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry (Mildred D. Taylor) and Lord of the Flies (William Golding).

About the Author

David Nagel is the former editorial director of 1105 Media's Education Group and editor-in-chief of THE Journal, STEAM Universe, and Spaces4Learning. A 30-year publishing veteran, Nagel has led or contributed to dozens of technology, art, marketing, media, and business publications.

He can be reached at [email protected]. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidrnagel/ .


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