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We believe that true impact comes from making reading accessible, engaging, and inclusive for everyone. Empowering students and schools with the right digital tools and content helps foster a lifelong love of learning— because when readers succeed, communities thrive. Win-win!
ePlatform was originally developed as part of Wheelers Books, New Zealand’s largest supplier of books to schools and public libraries. Wheelers launched ePlatform in 2011 as a dedicated eBook lending system for libraries and schools, leveraging its extensive publishing background.
Since then, ePlatform has grown its partnerships with top international and local publishers to offer current, curriculum-aligned, and high-interest titles for all reading levels. Its flexible collections and cost-effective model ensure quality educational content is available to schools and libraries of every size. Committed to literacy and inclusion, ePlatform continues evolving as a vital resource for independent reading and language learning worldwide.
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Join a consortium of American schools like yours and access a professionally curated collection of leading international and local titles, dynamically managed by our selectors. Your school accesses the collection through its own branded portal, with full control to add new titles, apply age restrictions, or disable specific titles as needed.
Our eBook collection is split into primary and secondary collections, each curated to suit specific year levels, interests, and curriculum needs. With a broad mix of fiction, classics, and nonfiction, it supports classroom learning, recreational reading, and independent study. It’s a flexible, engaging way to build a rich digital library for your whole school. Learn more about our eBook Collections.
The audiobook collection is available in separate primary and secondary collections, with age-appropriate fiction and nonfiction across genres, authors, and reading levels. Titles support classroom texts, literacy development, and reading for pleasure. Audiobooks are ideal for students who benefit from listening, alternative access, or who are building fluency through audio. Learn more about our Audiobook Collections.
Designed for early years, this collection includes hundreds of decodable books aligned with a clear phonics sequence. It features both fiction and nonfiction with controlled text, engaging content, and levelled progression to match synthetic phonics instruction. It also includes BookLife and Blastoff Levelled Readers — providing flexible options for early readers and EAL/D support. Learn more about our Decodable Readers.
The Wellness Collection supports secondary students with titles on identity, resilience, self-esteem, anxiety, and mental health. Curated with input from counsellors and wellbeing practitioners, it reflects the diverse needs and lived experiences of students. These resources offer a safe entry point into wellbeing conversations, both in and beyond the classroom. Learn more about our Wellness Collections.
This is a collaborative effort. The core of the collection is built around the statistical data we have from the thousands of school eLibraries that we already provide, so we can see what's popular for what age groups in each country we serve. From there, we canvas suggestions from member schools who may have special requirements and suggestions. We ensure that each title from our Shared Collections has appeal to more than just one member so that the most relevant collection is built to serve the member community.
Even though you will be joining a Shared Collection, you'll be in control of many aspects of your ePlatform. You can choose the look and feel, web address, school logo to match your school's branding, and you can customise other aspects such as special messages to students. You will also be able to age restrict titles, manage your student's access and view usage reports.
If you have a private collection, your students can borrow all the books in the collection, however in our Shared Collections, we need to ensure each member school has equal access to the titles. We do this by having generous limits on simultaneous loans and loans per month. We've set these limits generously and ensured the collection has the depth to support them. Contact us for details but we are sure you will find they easily exceed your expected student usage.
For the great majority of schools, ePlatform's Shared Collections meet their needs, providing collection breadth, which would be very expensive to match in a private collection. However, some schools have special requirements for titles not in the shared collection or may want more copies of some titles for class set purposes. In these cases, you can build a private collection by purchasing books via the ePlatform shop which are then immediately available and visible to your students.
Preparing your ePlatform to look amazing with your look and logo is easy. Often we create the banner header area for you using elements from your school's webpage and images - if you are happy with this there is nothing for you to do. In other cases schools prefer to prepare and supply us with their own graphics and that's completely fine.
Adding students to access your eLibrary can be daunting, but we have made this super easy by offering some extremely simple methods that will not require IT department assistance and will have you sorted in minutes. Of course we also support LMS integrated methods such as LDAP and SIP2. We suggest start with the simple method to keep momentum going and then switch to the LMS integrated method later. More information on this here.
Once your new eLibrary is looking fantastic it's time to launch it to your students. We are absolutely passionate about student usage. We will help you by providing promotional materials such as posters, bookmarks, shelf wobblers that you can display in the library. We also have a large range of digital assets that you can use to promote the eLibrary on your school's homepage.
ePlatform's Shared Collections are carefully curated digital libraries that multiple schools can collaboratively access by joining a consortium. They are designed to provide schools with immediate, cost-effective access to a broad and diverse range of eBooks and audiobooks, far exceeding what most schools could afford to license individually. These collections are specifically tailored to different geographic regions and age groups (primary and secondary) to ensure the content is relevant and appropriate for your students.
When a school subscribes to an ePlatform Shared Collection (eBooks or audiobooks), they gain immediate collective access to a professionally curated collection of digital resources. This subscription model significantly reduces costs for individual schools by eliminating the need to purchase every title separately. Each participating school receives its own branded ePlatform, where students can borrow titles from the shared collection. While the titles are shared among consortium members, ePlatform provides generous loan limits to ensure fair and equitable access for all schools, ensuring a vast collection remains accessible to all students.
Titles for our Shared Collections are chosen through a multi-faceted approach by our team of professional selectors. This process involves leveraging statistical data from thousands of existing school eLibraries to identify popular and frequently borrowed titles for specific age groups and regions. The curation also includes newly released titles, award winners, and titles that align with curriculum needs. Suggestions and requests from member schools within the consortium are also considered to ensure the collections remain highly relevant and responsive to the community's needs.
ePlatform's Shared Collections are updated regularly to ensure they remain dynamic and current. New eBook, audiobook, and wellness titles are added on a frequent, typically monthly, basis. This continuous addition of fresh content ensures that students always have access to new and engaging reading material, reflecting current interests, bestsellers, and curriculum requirements. When adding new titles to our shared collections, our team of selectors consults with publishers regarding title availability and considers demand from other schools for the same title.
Yes, absolutely. While ePlatform's Shared Collections provide an expansive and affordable core library, schools have the complete flexibility to build their own private collections. This is achieved by purchasing exclusive titles from ePlatform's vast catalog of over a million options. These privately owned titles sit seamlessly alongside the shared collection on the school's branded platform, allowing schools to deepen their library for specific curriculum needs, class sets, or unique student interests.
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ePlatform works with your existing school systems to make setup easy, simplify student access, and streamline classroom workflows. From student data syncs to library system compatibility and reading analytics, our integrations help you get the most out of your digital library without extra admin.
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A widely used library management system in Australia, New Zealand, and the UK. Integrating with ePlatform allows schools to centralise digital and print borrowing in one familiar environment.
A data integration platform that syncs student and staff information securely across school systems. Wonde's MyLogin ensures ePlatform access stays up to date without manual intervention.
Used by thousands of schools in the USA to manage logins and digital classroom tools. Clever integration enables streamlined access to ePlatform with existing school credentials.
Google's learning platform for assigning, managing, and organising classwork. Teachers can easily align ePlatform reading materials with Google Classroom activities.
A UK-based school LMS designed to simplify library workflows. Integration with ePlatform gives students easy access to digital borrowing through the same system they already use.
A powerful LMS trusted by thousands of schools globally. ePlatform connects seamlessly with Oliver so students can browse, borrow, and read all from within the same library system.
Concord Infiniti Library Management System is an intuitive web app for managing a modern school library. Infiniti makes it easy to catalogue, manage, and circulate thousands of library resources.
ePlatform offers flexible integration options designed to work seamlessly with your school’s existing systems. Whether you're using a Library Management System (LMS), student database, or Single Sign-On (SSO) provider, our platform can connect securely to authenticate students and staff. This ensures that only valid users can access your eBook and audiobook collections, without the need to create or manage separate accounts.
We support a range of authentication methods including SIP2, LDAP/Active Directory, encrypted data uploads, and Single Sign-On (SAML or OpenID). Each time a user logs in, ePlatform verifies their credentials in real time through the method you've selected. Direct connections are also available for platforms like Aurora, Millennium, EZproxy, and Libcode, allowing for even tighter integration with your LMS or authentication server.
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Setting up integrations with ePlatform is designed to be very straightforward and hassle-free for schools. ePlatform integrates with many industry-leading school management and library systems, including popular options like Oliver by Softlink, Accessit, Wonde, and Clever. The ePlatform team assists with the setup process, which often involves simple data uploads or connecting to your existing systems. Furthermore, when schools wish to set up an integration, ePlatform provides a PDF tutorial that acts as a simple step-by-step guide. The goal is to make the process as seamless as possible, often requiring minimal IT involvement from the school's side.
No, in most cases, students do not need separate logins if your school has an integration with ePlatform. One of the key benefits of ePlatform's integrations, especially with Single Sign-On (SSO) systems like Wonde or Clever, is that students can typically access their ePlatform digital library using their existing school credentials. This means they can log in once to their school's portal or system, and then seamlessly click through to ePlatform without needing to remember another username or password, making access incredibly easy and improving the overall student experience.
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Here’s a few key publishers we’d like to highlight. We work with over 4,000 publishers/imprints to have over 300,000 eBooks available. We have partnered with key library suppliers to ensure a continuous stream of local and international content. We also work with leading LMS providers to ensure schools can access eBooks and Audiobooks from the platforms they already use.
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Penguin Random House is committed to expanding as a cultural institution that serves society not only with the books they publish and investments they make in new ideas, creativity, and diverse voices, but also through their charitable donations and leadership of numerous campaigns and initiatives worldwide that promote literacy and reading culture, support freedom of expression, and reflect their belief in the power of books to connect and change lives.
Hodder Children’s Books and Orchard Books proudly publish many successful brands such as Enid Blyton and Rainbow Magic and bestselling writers and illustrators including David Almond, Lauren Child and Guy Parker-Rees. Their titles have won many major UK children’s book awards.
Allen & Unwin is Australia’s leading independent publisher. They publish around 250 new titles each year including literary and commercial fiction, a broad range of general non fiction, academic and professional titles and books for children and young adults. Their imprints include Allen & Unwin, Arena, Crows Nest and Inspired Living (MBS).
HarperCollins is a broad-based publisher with strengths in literary and commercial fiction, business books, children’s books, cookbooks, mystery, romance, religious and spiritual books. With nearly 200 years of history, HarperCollins has published some of the world’s foremost authors and has won numerous awards.
Simon & Schuster is one of the four largest English-language publishers in the world. Their diverse range of titles includes the works of top-selling authors such as Lynda La Plante, Holly Black and Mary Higgins Clark, plus non-fiction works by renowned writers such as Tony Robbins.
Note: Simon & Schuster eBook titles are currently only available for public libraries.
Pan Macmillan Australia is a major Australian publisher with a wide range of titles under group imprints. Its Australian publishing encompasses commercial and literary fiction, children’s and teenage fiction, picture books and character product, Australiana, history, biographies, cooking, health and self-help, sport and travel.
Bloomsbury Publishing is a leading independent publishing house established in 1986. It has companies in London, New York, Sydney and New Delhi. Its four divisions include Bloomsbury Academic and Professional, Bloomsbury Information, Bloomsbury Adult Publishing and Bloomsbury Children’s Publishing.
Random House is the largest English language publisher in the world. Their international best-selling authors include Lee Child, James Patterson, E L James, Bill Bryson, Nigella Lawson, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Julian Barnes and Ben Elton among many others. They are also known for their commitment to delivering to local interests – publishing major lists within the areas of fiction, art and design, architecture, food, social and natural history, biography, and business.
Auckland University Press is a leading New Zealand publisher that produces creative and scholarly work for a general audience. Founded in 1966, today The Press publishes around 20 new books a year.
Baker Publishing Group publishes high-quality writings that represent historic Christianity and serve the diverse interests and concerns of evangelical readers.
The innovative Scotland-based Canongate Press seeks to publish a range of quality work from as broad a perspective as possible. Their stable of titles include thrillers and thought-provoking literature, through to more quirky works and popular television tie-ins. Many of their titles have received considerable critical acclaim in the UK.
Carlton Books is a leading UK independent publisher offers illustrated reference books on sport and entertainment, as well as children’s books and biographies of celebrities such as Nigella Lawson and Russell Crowe.
Ebury Publishing is part of The Random House Group Ltd which is based in the UK and comprises five publishing companies: Cornerstone, Ebury Publishing, Transworld Publishers, Vintage Publishing and Random House Children’s Publishers and associated distribution businesses.
With Britannica e-Books, students and teachers have access to complete texts and illustrations of quality reference and children’s non fiction titles. Subject areas include the arts, geography, history, language, maths, religion, science, social studies, sports and other school-related subjects.
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Exisle produces the kind of books that the very big publishers do not. Exisle is more concerned about long-lasting quality and sales which continue, than just being in today’s bestsellers list. Not that we mind bestsellers, and we have a few most years, but what we really like to do is find a great subject and have it written about properly by a real expert, support them with a brilliant designer and a top editor and take the book to market.
Faber Factory Powered by Constellation (FFPC), the award-winning digital service for independent publishers, is a joint venture between Faber and Faber in the UK and the Perseus Books Group in the US. With almost 100 client publishers FFPC provides a comprehensive and global digital service, from digitisation, distribution and account management, through to offering a digital toolkit to enable publishers to more successfully participate in this fast-growing market.
Like the kids who read our books, Hardie Grant Egmont is young and small with boundless drive and energy. We are the largest Australian independent children’s publisher and pride ourselves on publishing first and foremost for kids. We excel at making books that capture imaginations and encourage reluctant readers.
In the 1990’s the Harlequin brand was added to the well known Mills & Boon name. Today, the Harlequin Mills & Boon brand dominates the paperback romance market in Australia and New Zealand, and wherever English language romance paperbacks are sold in Asia.
Independent Publishers Group was founded in 1971, the first organization specifically created for the purpose of representing titles from independent presses to the book trade. IPG has been active in the e-book market since 2001. Currently about 10,000 e-book titles are available through IPG.
Some notable independent presses include:
Chicago Review Press, ECW Press, Medallion Press, NBM Publishing, Nomad Press, Tachyon Publications, Triumph Books, University of Queensland Press.
Lonely Planet is the world’s most successful travel publisher, printing over 100 million books. The guides are printed in nine different languages; English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Korean. Lonely Planet enables curious travellers to experience the world and get to the heart of a place via guidebooks and eBooks to almost every destination on the planet, an award-winning website and magazine, a range of mobile and digital travel products and a dedicated traveller community.
Founded in 1982, Orca Book Publishers is an independently owned Canadian children’s book publisher. With over 500 titles in print and more than 65 new titles a year, Orca publishes award-winning, best-selling books in a number of genres.
Parkstone International is an international publishing house specializing in art books. Our books are published in 23 languages and distributed worldwide. In addition to printed material, Parkstone has started distributing its titles in digital format through e-book platforms all over the world.
In 2004, Raintree was launched alongside Heinemann Library to cater for the needs of reluctant readers and those in need of additional support. In January 2010, the company rebranded as Raintree – incorporating Heinemann Library and Raintree under one banner. Their focus is on the quality of production, for both the inspiring content based non-fiction with curricula support, and the newly electrifying fiction list.
One of the market leaders in children and young adults’ publishing, renowned publisher Scholastic has brought us such enduringly popular series as Hunger Games, The Last Thirteen, Maze Runner and Captain Underpants.
Note: Scholastic eBook titles are currently only available for public libraries.
US-based publisher Sourcebooks have featured on numerous bestseller lists since they began in 1987, but their focus continues to be on stories that have an impact and will find their way into people’s lives. There are currently around 500 eBook titles available from Sourcebooks on ePlatform, with more continually being added.
The Spinney Press publishes the popular issues in society series of books on social issues. Over 100 titles are currently available in print and digital editions from The Spinney Press, booksellers and ebook platforms.
At Text we want to publish books that make a difference to people’s lives. We are committed to providing first-class services to the writers who trust us with their books. If we are to fulfil our promises to readers, our job is to do everything in our power to help our writers write the best books they can. We care passionately about the quality of our editorial work. Design and production matter to us because we want our books to be beautiful objects. We publish a very broad range of fiction and non-fiction, international and local, books for adults and young adults.
Top Shelf Productions publishes contemporary graphic novels and comics by artists of singular vision. Dedicated to championing veteran creators as well as finding and developing emerging talent, the Top Shelf library is anchored by such masters of the craft as Alan Moore, Craig Thompson, Jeff Lemire, Jeffrey Brown, Alex Robinson, James Kochalka, Matt Kindt, Nate Powell, Robert Venditti, Renée French, and many more.
Trajectory simplifies the process of creating and distributing eBooks around the world. We are a technology and marketing oriented multi-channel distribution company. We collaborate with leading authors, illustrators, and traditional publishers.
Located in Carol Stream, Illinois, Tyndale House Publishers was founded in 1962 by Dr. Kenneth N. Taylor as a means of publishing The Living Bible. Tyndale publishes Christian fiction, nonfiction, children’s books, and other resources, including Bibles in the New Living Translation (NLT). Tyndale products include many New York Times best sellers, including the popular Left Behind fiction series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins.
Books with an Australian focus, including extensive lists in fiction and poetry.
Untreed Reads was founded by Jay A. Hartman in 2008 as a way to promote ebooks, with an emphasis on independent authors and publishers. He has been writing about the ebook industry for 15 years, and was previously the Content Editor for KnowBetter.com, one of the Internet’s oldest sites reporting on ebooks and epublishing. Jay and his business partner at the time were hired by Random House and Simon & Schuster to provide statistical data when both publishing houses were building their ebook divisions.
Usborne is a major, independent, award-winning UK publishing company, and Children’s Publisher of the Year 2012. We publish almost every type of children’s book for every age from baby to teenager.
Producers of fine books and new ideas, UWA Publishing (UWAP) continues to expand the boundaries of academic publishing, striving for social, cultural and intellectual renewal. Award-winning fiction and non-fiction works illustrate its strength and diversity in a modern university. UWAP’s impetus is to make a contribution to the culture we operate from, and to do so with foresight and rigour.
Walker is the world’s leading independent publisher of children’s books. Working with the best authors and illustrators, Walker Books is renowned for its truly original publishing and outstanding quality. Home of books for all ages, from babies to teenagers, Walker publishes many award-winning authors and illustrators including Anthony Horowitz, Helen Oxenbury, Michael Morpurgo, John Burningham, Allan Ahlberg, Lucy Cousins and Michael Rosen
Victoria University Press publishes new fiction and poetry, as well as scholarly works on New Zealand history, biography and essays. Founded in the 1970s, VUP now has a backlist of over 400 books in print and publishes around 25 new titles every year.
Sequoia Kids Media brings perennial favourite series’ to schools and libraries, giving children the kind of interactive experience and familiar characters that promise high circulation, high fun, and high demand.
Yes, schools using ePlatform will have access to newly published titles. As part of ePlatform's commitment to providing dynamic and current digital libraries, new eBook, audiobook, and wellness titles from leading international and local publishers are regularly added. This ensures that both the shared collections and the wider catalog of titles available for private purchase are continuously refreshed with popular new releases, award winners, and titles that align with current interests and curriculum needs.
Yes, schools can absolutely request titles for Shared Collections. The curation process for Shared Collections is collaborative, and ePlatform actively encourages suggestions and requests from member schools within the consortium. This input is a valuable part of how ePlatform's team of professional selectors ensures the collections remain highly relevant and responsive to the specific demands and evolving needs of the schools we serve.
Explore our digital library, student tools, and admin features in a guided demo for your school.
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Explore our digital library, student tools, and admin features in a guided demo for your school.
Have questions? Check out our FAQ, or Contact Us. We’re here to help.