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Des Moines, IA - December 8, 2010
Perfection Learning, a leading educational publisher, announces acquisition of Kinetic Books. See complete press release.
For additional information, contact Nancy Morton at
Georgia, Kentucky Adopt Kinetic Books’ Physics Textbooks
Company maintains100% state approval rating for full line of digital physics textbooks
SEATTLE, September 20, 2007 - Kinetic Books Company, the innovative digital publisher of Kinetic TextbooksTM, today announced that the Georgia Department of Education and the Kentucky State Textbook Commission have formally adopted the company’s full line of digital physics textbooks as standard curriculum. This news upholds the company’s accomplishment of receiving approval from every state that has gone through a physics text approval process since Kinetic Books introduced its products in 2005.
The digital textbooks, Conceptual Physics, Principles of Physics, and Physics for Scientists and Engineers, provide three levels of physics instruction, meet curriculum standards, address a wider range of learning styles, and take full advantage of the benefits of a computer. All for one-third the cost of a traditional, printed textbook - starting at $24.95 per student. The fully-interactive textbooks and labs include hundreds of simulations, thousands of animations, audio, video, and multiple self-assessment tools for students. They weigh less than printed textbooks, are easier to update (so that students have access to the most recent material), and take advantage of digital capabilities such as computer-graded homework and animated lectures.
"When we earn state adoptions and approvals, we feel this is not just a win for Kinetic Books, but for digital curriculum publishing," said Mark Bretl, vice president, Kinetic Books Company. "If alternative publishers can create comprehensive, standards-compliant educational material that is adopted and approved at the state level, it shatters the old belief that we can’t compete in the same arena as higher-priced, traditional paper textbooks from the traditional publishing companies."
Ryan Depew, a physics instructor at Sayre School in Lexington, Kentucky believes that Kinetic Books has helped reach more students and increase class enrollment by making physics more enjoyable: "Overall, this curriculum increases the learning potential that each student has on their own. Several learning styles are addressed at once. Students with poor reading comprehension are still able to learn because they have the interactive videos and practice problems to work with. Audio learners are able to listen to the recordings. When students have homework problems, many times they freeze up and get frustrated. In class, working together, they show that they can learn. Test scores are better with this format too."
Depew continued, "About the only thing this book doesn't do is make kids get up and dance...though we've been close at times."
About Kinetic TextbooksTM
Kinetic Textbooks are comprehensive textbooks built from the ground up to take advantage of computers. Unlike previous versions of electronic or interactive textbooks, which are bundled as part of traditional textbooks or do not subscribe to course work, Kinetic Textbooks are comprehensive, flexible and fully interactive.
About Kinetic Books® Company
Kinetic Books Company creates and publishes Kinetic TextbooksTM, the next generation of physics and algebra curriculum. Kinetic Books' textbooks and virtual labs are teaching students in hundreds of high schools and tertiary institutions in 44 states and 19 countries. The company’s full line of textbooks has been adopted in every state that has gone through a physics text approval process since Kinetic Books introduced its products in 2005. Two of the company’s physics textbooks, Principles of Physics, and Physics for Scientists and Engineers, have been designated by the College Board to meet AP course audit requirements. Experiment with Kinetic Books physics curriculum, or find out more about the company, at www.kineticbooks.com.
Contact Kinetic Books Company:
Nancy Morton, (206) 448-1141
Kinetic Books Company and Kinetic Textbooks, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Kinetic Books Company, Inc. All other marks are properties of their respective owners.
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