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From the press release:

Lerner Digital™Lerner Publishing Group’s growing digital publishing division, is pleased to announce the launch of the Kar-Ben eBookstore. With nearly 170 Jewish-interest eBooks available for children, the Kar-Ben eBookstore (http://ebooks.karben.com) allows parents and young readers to easily browse, select, purchase, and conveniently read high-quality children’s eBooks from award-winning authors and illustrators.

“We are thrilled to make our complete eBook collection easily accessible to our customers via the new Kar-Ben eBookstore, which allows simple online purchasing and reading of fiction and nonfiction titles that highlight Jewish holidays, Bible tales, folktales, and life-cycle stories,” said Joni Sussman, publisher, Kar-Ben Publishing. “Our new eBookstore allows parents and children to experience our books in exciting new ways.”

Kar-Ben’s eBookstore is a user-friendly site for previewing and purchasing eBooks. No log-in is needed to browse the eBook collection, which includes a growing collection of Kar-Ben titles. Parents who purchase eBooks may log-in with their eBookstore accounts and read purchased eBooks within the digital bookshelf, which may be searched or filtered by category, age, and other attributes.

The Kar-Ben eBookstore and eBooks are available for browsing, purchasing, and reading via any Web browser. Lerner Digital will also launch a new Kar-Ben eReader App— a dedicated eReader for the iPad® to support mobile reading on the increasingly popular tablet. The Kar-Ben eBookstore and eReader App were developed in partnership with Impelsys, a global leader in providing electronic content delivery solutions. The app is available free in the Apple App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/kar-ben-digital-ereader/id483986351?ls=1&mt=8.

“For the first time Jewish parents and their children have direct access to Kar-Ben’s extensive eBook library,” said Terri Soutor, vice president of marketing and digital products, Lerner Publishing Group. “The new Kar-Ben eBookstore makes it possible to access Jewish-interest eBooks anywhere, any time and makes our books more mobile and accessible than ever before.”

In addition to offering Kar-Ben titles for sale via the eBookstore, Lerner Digital will open the eBookstore to other publishers of Jewish children’s books who may wish to take advantage of Kar-Ben’s large presence and strong brand in the Jewish children’s book market. Publishers interested in more information about distribution opportunities may contact David Wexler at dwexler@lernerbooks.com.

About Lerner Digital™
Lerner Digital™, a division of Lerner Publishing Group, launched in 2010 with a mission to ensure that schools and libraries have access to the highest quality digital content to serve the evolving needs of teachers and learners in the 21st century. Its flagship product, the Lerner Interactive Book™ , is uniquely designed to ignite reading enthusiasm and improve literacy skills in struggling and reluctant readers. Lerner Digital also offers 2500+ nonfiction and fiction K-12 eBooks for home, classrooms, and libraries, as well as the Lerner Digital eReader App for iPad®. For more information, visit www.lernerbooks.com or call 800-328-4929. Follow Lerner Digital on Twitter at twitter.com/LernerDigital.

About Kar-Ben Publishing
Kar-Ben Publishing, founded in 1974, is a division of Lerner Publishing Group. With over 300 titles in print, Kar-Ben publishes 12-18 new children’s titles with Jewish content each year. Titles include fiction and nonfiction for children, including holiday books, life-cycle stories, Bible tales, folktales, board books, and activity books, as well as stories that reflect the rich cultural diversity of today’s Jewish family. Visit www.karben.com for up-to-date details on our highly reviewed and award-winning titles.

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