Yesterday, a group of 120 high school freshman students from Los Gatos High School published an amazing poetry anthology ebook,Windows to the Teenage Soul.

If you're a parent, grandparent, educator, author or reader who cares about the future of books, I encourage you to go buy and enjoy this incredible book.  It's available now at Smashwords, iBooks, Amazon orBarnes & Noble. Yesterday it was the bestselling poetry book at iBooks.

Buy it not because it's a great book (it is!), but because this book will serve as the blueprint to help educators and parents around the globe bring similar ebook publishing projects to the classroom.

In addition to nearly 120 great poems organized under ten themes, it  contains a Teacher's Guide that shares the step-by-step process this class followed to professionally write, edit, produce and publish a poetry anthology ebook in under five weeks.  I wrote the preface to the Teacher's Guide.

http://blog.smashwords.com/2014/05/ebook-publishing-in-classroom-los-gatos.html

Smashwords just announced a deal with Overdrive.  Overdrive is a company that provides e-books to 20,000 libraries world wide.
Read the article here,

http://blog.smashwords.com/2014/05/smashwords-and-overdrive-to-bring.html