What is CafeScribe?

CafeScribe is a digital textbook platform that offers a full world of reading, studying, connecting and getting inspired. It provides students with the ability to not only read, highlight and take notes, but also to search, sort and quickly summarize notes and highlights. And with CafeScribe’s powerful sharing features, it’s never been easier for faculty to tailor digital textbooks to the needs of their class. They can customize their course materials with notes, highlights, links to online content and more.

Not only are the digital textbooks offered via CafeScribe environmentally friendly, they are also:

Simple and fast: Using CafeScribe is easy and intuitive. Students can read and study online or offline and buy books in minutes using a wide variety of tender options.

Affordable: CafeScribe offers savings of up to 40-60% off the cost of a new textbook.

Flexible: There’s no need to purchase special reading devices or hardware to use CafeScribe. The device students and faculty likely already have is all they’ll need - from PCs and Macs to web-enabled tablets and smart phones.

Adaptable: Faculty can personalize their course material to the specific needs of their classroom, adding notes, guides to the topic, links to library resources, etc.

Collaborative: Students can exchange ideas with other students and instructors, share notes and insights on the text, connect their thoughts and learn faster.

Announcing CafeScribe 2.0

The next evolution of CafeScribe is a more flexible and better performing digital textbook platform. It’s a full world of reading, connecting, learning, and getting inspired.

The free CafeScribe platform was designed with students and faculty in mind and enables learners to:

• Read, highlight, search, summarize, and make and share notes in assigned textbooks
• Use Snap Summary to quickly and easily compile highlights and notes into a powerful study and reference resource
• If desired, interact and learn within the digital course material without ever leaving your Learning Management System

CafeScribe offers:

• More than 50 publishing partners with more than 15,000 titles
• The option to access directly from the Blackboard Learn^TM platform
• Listen to text using Read-Aloud
• Copy and print portions of the material
• Download onto any computer - no additional e-reader required
• Read your textbook using any device with a web browser
• Textbook enhancement - instructors can add notes, text, links, etc.

Why CafeScribe is the Right Choice for Faculty and Campuses

CafeScribe is a platform for learning designed to empower students and faculty to learn freely and more deeply through community-based exchange and access to a world of content.

On a campus level, CafeScribe is a scalable solution that can grow from one student to one department to entire campus integration. It is an affordable digital solution at both administrative and student levels. CafeScribe offers the ability to work within existing learning management systems (LMS) without the need for additional hardware, and there are no start up or maintenance fees for the institution. Ratex, BookLog and Virtual Store students can purchase CafeScribe using any available tender type.

Free customer and tech support has been a valued component of CafeScribe since its launch. Students know they can get product help if/when needed; faculty know students have this support; the campus is not required to fill another costly demand; and store management and associates refer all technical customer questions to tech support.

Customers can access Tech Support any hour of the day or night by:

• Calling 1-877-612-2233
• Emailing support@cafescribe.com

Students can buy a CafeScribe digital textbook in your store by purchasing a 4x6 card which will be displayed on-shelf next to your traditional new and used textbooks. The card represents one of the hundreds of titles that are available in the digital textbook format. When a student pays for a digital textbook, the receipt for the purchase will contain a PIN/code that will grant access to the online content. The URL for the digital textbook website is printed on the digital textbook card. It's as simple as that. And, you do not get billed for any digital textbooks until the sale is made in your college store.

In addition to the digital textbook cards, Follett will provide all of the in-store display materials you will need to let your customers know about this exciting new offering, including:

• Plastic display holders for the digital textbook cards
• Signage, 22x28 inch posters
• Sales brochure
• Receipt folder with instructions for activating the purchased digital textbooks

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