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Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Books
1. Mixbook: The best site for creating a book to either share with others digitally for free or order in the form of hard copy for a fee. Also, educators can create student accounts for better management.
2. BookRix: One of the best sites for advertising your digital book; very user-friendly, and a nice social environment.
3. Panraven: A nice site for creating, sharing, and purchasing your digital book.
4. Book Builder: Site for creating digital books. The Universal Design for Learning (UDL) Book Builder website offers tools that allows both teachers and students to create digital books. Read a review of this terrific website:
5. PDF Flash: Upload a PDF to create a professional-looking Flash-based digital book.
6. MyPublisher: Free software that allows users to create colorful photo or digital books.
7. Tabblo: Create a user account to make digital books with photos.
8. SmileBooks: Create beautiful storybooks online for a fee or download their software to store on your hard drive.
9. Blurb: Site for making photo books to order for a fee.
10. Lulu: Create print or ebooks with this user-friendly site.
Source: David Kapuler is the media and technology specialist at the Greendale (WI) School District. Read his blog at http://cyberkap. blogspot.com.
Top 10 Sites for Creating Digital Magazines/Newspapers
1. Issuu - One of the most popular and successful online digital magazine creators/publishers around, with a very nice user interface.
2. Yudu - Upload a document or PDF to create an online magazine that can be emailed our or embedded into a site.
3. Openzine - Very user friendly site with an abundance of templates and layouts to create a professional-looking magazine and share online.
4. NewsCred - Create a terrific looking online newspaper in 5 minutes, similar to Openzine.
5. Scribd - A very popular Web 2.0 site for creating online content and publishing.
6 Fodey - A fun site to create a newspaper and then download to print out or put on a blog or site.
7. Zinepal - A great way to bring the news to students by "clipping" online articles. This is a wonderful site for those making the move to ebook readers.
8. Paper.li - A fantastic site to turn Twitter into an online readable magazine.
9. Guzzle.it - Is a news aggregator that puts online news in one customizable place.
10. Crayon- Create a professional-looking newspaper with this nice online creator. There are several options to choose from, so it has a bit of a higher learning curve.
Source: David Kapuler
For more information about his work read his blog at cyber-kap.blogspot.com.