BookTango is an online eBook publishing service which allows you to prepare, format, edit, publish and distribute your eBook to all major online ebookstores including:
Amazon Kindle, iBookStore, Google Play, Sony, Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Scribd. The basic service is free. Avanced pro include a number of extra services
If you are looking for a basic guide on how to prepare, edit and format your eBook inside Microsoft Word, here is an introductory guide.
If you are looking for new places where to go and promote your bran new ebook, here is a good collection.
Leanpub is a free web service that allows you to create, edit and publish your own book in PDF, .epub (iPad) and .mobi (Kindle) formats, and to sell it online at your own set price.
"Aerbook Maker may be of interest to librarians and other educators who want to go beyond a read-only experience and enable their students to easily create, share—and even market—their own slick, tablet-ready graphical ebooks and mobile apps"
9 easy-to-use web 2.0 sites to publish, share and celebrate student work.
A long list of places on the Internet from where you can download free (and legal) eBooks. If we are aiming to have improved access, with everyone knowing and understanding how to access and find what they want to read, then we are opening up a new world for some an and using technology to create better readers. This is in a listly from Fasal Khan.
A good tool for story creation that features some sophisticated editing tools perfect for middle or high school students. Students begin with story starters or a completely blank book. The site includes numerous templates and images to insure a professional looking book. Mixbook also offers accounts designed for teachers.
Lulu gives you the opportunity to upload a document and convert to epub format. The site contains photo book tools and you can add images and text to tell a story. Tools are also available for creating poetry books and digital portfolios
This publishing tool is very easy to use. You need the document you upload to be in PDF format. If you have a scanner in they school that scans into PDF, you can load it with the student work, create a PDF and convert it into a virtual book. Free and premium versions available. This can then be embedded into a blog etc.
Epubbud is another way students can have their work published. It allows you to convert any existing document into an e-book or create the book on the site itself. It converts the book to the epub format which is compatible with various readers and tablets. It is a fairly easy and efficient way to generate an epub format book even if the user interface is not as refined as some of the other publishing tools.
An annotated list of web tools that teachers can use with their students to create books. They are all quite simple to use and offer a variety of approaches.