Saddleback Educational Publishing Joins Capstone Digital's MyON Reader

Online, December 2, 2011 (Newswire.com) - Capstone Digital, developer of personalized learning environments for students, announces a new partnership with Saddleback Educational Publishing, publisher of educational materials for young adults, to extend the myON platform with the addition of more than 100 new titles.

With the additional Saddleback titles, myON will now extend to middle and high school students. Currently, myON features more than 1,700 books exclusively from Capstone's award-winning imprints: Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Picture Window Books, Stone Arch Books and Heinemann-Raintree.

"Through technology, young adults choose how they communicate, how they shop and what music they like" said Todd Brekhus, president of Capstone Digital. "myON creates the same experience, allowing students to choose books that interests them based on their reading level. With the addition of Saddleback titles, young adults have more titles to choose from and an opportunity to expand interests, ultimately encouraging them to keep reading." said Todd Brekhus, President of Capstone Digital.

myON is a personalized literacy environment that provides access to the largest integrated library of digital books with multimedia supports, customized to a student's interest and reading ability. myON enables students to participate in anytime, anywhere reading, while rating and sharing their reviews with classmates and allows them to take ownership in their own reading growth. Customers can choose to include the Saddleback titles as an add-on package to the more than 1,700 myON titles currently available.

"We are very excited to offer our award winning content through the myON platform" said Arianne McHugh, President of Saddleback Educational. "The addition of Saddleback's content to myON enables young adults to be able to take advantage of myON's personalized learning solution, which includes the combination of Lexile® levels and multimedia support."

Saddleback titles will meet the high standards of the myON digital book platform. The converted Saddleback digital books include all of the features of myON titles, like highlighting, recorded audio, an online embedded dictionary, quizzes and Lexile® levels.

For more information on Capstone Digital's myON reader, visit TheFutureinReading.com. Additional information on Saddleback is available at www.SDLBack.com.

About Saddleback Educational Publishing
Saddleback Educational Publishing, Inc. has been the leader in high-interest, low readability solutions for middle school and high school struggling learners for almost 30 years. Saddleback publishes more than a thousand titles including urban fiction, hi-lo chapter books, nonfiction, graphic novels, interactive Smartboard lessons, low level supplemental curriculum and more. For more information, visit www.sdlback.com.

About Capstone Digital
Capstone Digital, a division of Capstone, develops personalized literacy environments, interactive resources and innovative products and services to help develop a new culture of literacy. The publisher program will ultimately expand the myON platform to new grade levels, target specific subject areas and include genres of content over and above the existing Capstone content to create the world's largest digital library. For more information, visit www.thefutureinreading.com/about-us/publishers.html.

About Capstone
Capstone is a leading publisher of children's books and digital products and services, offering everything from nonfiction, fiction, and picture books to interactive books, research databases, and literacy programs. Imprints and divisions include Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Heinemann-Raintree, Picture Window Books, Stone Arch Books, and Capstone Digital. For more information, visit www.capstonepub.com. Connect with them at http://connect.capstonepub.com.