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Saddleback Educational Publishing joins Capstone Digital's myON reader
Capstone Digital, developer of personalized learning environments for students, announces a new partnership with Saddleback Educational Publishing to extend the myON platform with the addition of more than 100 new titles.

MANKATO, MN, December 04, 2011 /24-7PressRelease/ -- 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.

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Jennifer Glidden
Capstone Publishers
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