Scholastic announced the launch of two new subscription services – Storia School Edition, which will provide eBooks to schools and classrooms for Pre-K through Grade 6, and Core Clicks, a web-based instructional program for Kindergarten through Grade 5 that supports content area reading in social studies and science.The services are priced according to school enrollment and grade level, and range between $2,000 and $3,000 per year. The table below details the benefits of each service.
They are designed for school-wide subscriptions and are easily accessed from desktop and laptop computers, tablets and interactive whiteboards. Online teacher resources and support are also available. The eBook subscription business is growing in recent months, such as Epic for kids, and Entitle, Rooster, and Scribd for adults. And Oyster just announced that it’s grown its collection from 100,000 title to 500,000 titles in just a year.These subscription services make sense as recent data from the Pew Research Center found that half of Americans own a tablet, but use them to consume eBooks, not Web content.
