Shmoop Launches 1,000 Educational Android Apps and iPad eBooks, Offers More than 4,000 Titles Across Web and 6 Mobile Platforms

Shmoop, a publisher of fun and relevant digital educational resources, launched 500 new mobile Apps for Android devices and 500 new eBooks for the iBookstore on Apple's iPad.


Shmoop (www.shmoop.com), a publisher of fun and relevant digital learning materials, today announced the launch of more than 500 Learning Apps for Android mobile devices and more than 500 educational eBooks for the iBookstore on Apple’s iPad. The company that connects the dots between The Great Gatsby and P. Diddy now helps teachers and students take their classroom on the road in more ways than ever. Shmoop is the largest cross-platform educational publisher, with more than 4,000 titles available across the Web, iPhone, iPad, Android, Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader.

“Shmoop is a mobile Yente,” said Ellen Siminoff, CEO of Shmoop. “We’ll use students’ crushes on their mobile devices as a way to help them find real love for literature, poetry, history, and the world around them.”

New Shmoop for the Mobile World

• Android Mobile Devices: Put a Ph.D. in your pocket. Shmoop offers more than 500 Apps full of punchy, fresh analysis from our team of experts and educators. Shmoop offers Android Apps for literature, poetry, music, US history, civics, and biographies. Each App includes our fast-paced Quiz-o-Rama trivia game. Dare to test your knowledge of To Kill a Mockingbird. To find Shmoop Apps, search the Android Market for “Shmoop.”
• iBooks on Apple’s iPad: Behold the Jobsian beauty of Shmoop eBooks for your shiny new iPad. More than 500 Shmoop Learning Guides are available in this world-class reading experience. Highlight, bookmark, or write notes in your favorite Shmoop guide. Just remember to wash your hands if you’re chomping on buttery popcorn while pawing at your screen. To find Shmoop eBooks search the iBooks Store on your iPad for “Shmoop” or give Shmoop's Romeo and Juliet Learning Guide eBook a try.

About Shmoop
Shmoop publishes digital Learning Guides and Teacher Resources that make classroom topics fun, current, and relevant. Shmoop content is written by master teachers and Ph.D. students from Stanford, Harvard, UC Berkeley, and other top universities. Shmoop balances a fun, approachable style with academically rigorous materials to help students understand how subjects relate to their daily lives. Shmoop offers more than 4,000 titles across the Web, iPhone, Android devices, iBooks for the iPad, Kindle, Nook, and Sony Reader. Shmoop was an Official Honoree in the 2009 and 2010 Webby Awards, was recognized as one of the best educational products of 2010 by the Association of Educational Publishers, and was named “Best of the Internet” by PC Magazine. Launched in 2008, Shmoop is headquartered in a Labradoodle-patrolled office in Mountain View, California.

Company Contact Information
Shmoop
Paul Thompson
P.O. Box 70186 Sunnyvale, California
94086
650-488-7778

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