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Where to Buy Caravan Books

Here are the ways in which consumers can purchase Caravan books: direclty from participating publishers whose links are provided

In May of 2007, BookSense.com launched a functionality that provides consumers with the ability to purchase eBooks through the website of participating stores. The eBooks, which are downloaded to the consumer's computer and/or handheld device, are accessible through all BookSense.com websites. Ingram Digital Ventures will fulfill eBook orders in three formats -- Palm OS, Adobe, and Microsoft Reader.

BookSense.com will provide customer service for any issues related to eBook downloads. Booksellers with questions about eBooks, or with customer service issues, should contact the BookSense.com staff at (800) 637-0037, ext. 2, or at staff@booksense.com.

OverDrive® is a leading full-service digital content distributor and technology provider which enables publishers, libraries, retailers, schools, aggregators and enterprises to securely manage, protect and fulfill their digital audio books, eBooks, music and video on a single platform. More than 7,500 libraries worldwide rely on OverDrive and Digital Library Reserve™ platform. To see if your library is a member of the OverDrive network, visit search.overdrive.com.

eMusic is a specialty digital entertainment retailer that offers MP3 downloads and customer-friendly prices since its inception in 1998. The company is focused on serving customers aged 25 and older by offering independent music and audio books in a universally compatible format. It is the world’s largest retailer of independent music, with more than 3.5 million tracks from 27,000 of the world’s leading independent labels and thousands of titles from top audio book publishers. eMusic provides award-winning editorial content, a vibrant online community and unrivaled music discovery tools. eMusic’s subscription-based service offers free music downloads or one free audio book at sign-up, giving consumers an inexpensive, low-risk way to explore great new music and books.

The Reader Digital Book from Sony ®: An Innovative Reading Experience

The Reader Digital Book provides a new way to experience reading. A perfect travel companion, the Reader Digital Book offers a unique, on-the-go reading experience. With a compact and lightweight design, you can take it almost anywhere and read whenever you want. Downloading books is only a few clicks away. Just connect your Reader Digital Book to a PC via the supplied USB cable and search, browse and discover thousands of popular electronic book titles from the eBook Store from Sony. Including over 20,000 latest bestsellers, classics and more, the website lets you purchase and download titles to your compatible PC and easily drag and drop them to your Reader.

The National Association of College Stores has given Caravan a grant to develop the means of delivering digital content to its member stores in the United States and Canada. A pilot project is now underway upgrading the stores’ websites to handle digital sales. The goal of the project is to assure that the NACS membership take full advantage of the opportunities of changing technology. The grant to Caravan is one of the largest ever given by the NACS Foundation.

Other venues for individuals:

Among the independent booksellers we have worked with the following:

We are in exciting negotiations with other bookselling venues to broaden the availability of Caravan digital works. As The Caravan Project expands, we will be able to bring more books from more publishers to more readers through more booksellers.