Industry Links - Electronic Text Publishers
Accessible Book Collection
The Accessible Book Collection provides ebooks to people with print disabilities and to nonprofit or government schools. In particular, they provide high interest/low reading level ebooks to struggling readers who have a verified print disability such as visual, physical or learning disability.
Bookshare.org
Bookshare.org is a web-based subscription service where over ten thousand ebooks are available for download by U.S. residents who have provided proof of a qualifying disability. By enabling members and volunteers to submit the books they are scanning, Bookshare.org makes an entirely new collection of books available to this community. Permitted by a specific exemption in U.S. copyright law, books are downloaded in digital Braille or the NISO/DAISY format.
Carrie: A Full Text Electronic Library
Offers text organized like a library. Applicable to high school/adult populations.
Children's Literature Web Guide
Includes links to other resources on the Web for stories, folklore, songs and poetry. Site attempts to gather together and categorize Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Most information on the site is provided by schools, libraries and commercial enterprises involved in the book world.
Free Encyclopedia on the Internet
All 17,000 articles of The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia are ready to read and link from to the archives of Electronic Library, Infonautics' for-free subscription service that offers full-text documents and images from publications, radio programs, an almanac, hundreds of works of literature and more.
Internet Public Library
Offers fictional stories and poems for children at all reading levels. Provides favorite authors information and links to picture books, short stories, poetry, myths, fables and magazines.
NetLibrary
As the world's premier provider of electronic books (eBooks), netLibrary helps academic, public, corporate and private libraries create a richer, more productive learning environment for their patrons. By combining the time-honored traditions of the library system with electronic publishing, netLibrary offers an easy-to-use information and retrieval system for accessing the full text of reference, scholarly and professional books.
Project Gutenberg
Site offers three types of works including light children's literature such as Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Aesop's Fables, etc.; classic literature such as the Bible, Moby Dick and Shakespeare's works, etc.; and references such as Roget's Thesaurus, almanacs, encyclopedias and dictionaries.
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