Licence to Skill!
Licence to Skill
In recent months we’ve seen a huge surge of interest in our e-Pocketbook library. It seems as if schools, colleges and other educational organisations, having made good strides with their VLEs, are now keen to promote e-learning. Some establishments are starting from the position of wanting content to populate their online learning environments; others are Pocketbooks fans who want to make Teachers’ Pocketbooks available to everyone on the staff as a key element of their ongoing CPD programme. We’ve also spoken to the programme managers of several GTPs who wanted the facility to upload our Pocketbooks to their intranets, giving access to trainee teachers dispersed across a wide geographical region. Our multi-user licences make all of this possible and we’ve now got a sizeable band of happy licensees.
So how does it work?
If you’d like to share e-Pocketbooks among several different users, an annual subscription buys you a multi-user licence. You then get access to the full library of Teachers’ Pocketbooks (currently 36 titles – over 4,000 pages of CPD material) for as many users as you’d like. You can upload the entire library to a VLE or intranet, project pages onto a screen for small group or whole staff training sessions, and licensed users may print pages any number of times for their own use.
The cost of an annual subscription is determined by number of users and we’re told it compares favourably in cost and content with school training days or sending staff on courses. Each year when you renew we update your library with all the new editions and new titles published since the start of your subscription period. We also offer 25% discount on all paperback Pocketbooks purchased by the licensee during the subscription period.
If you’d like a quote for an annual licence or to find out more, call us on 01962 735573 or email sales@pocketbook.co.uk telling us how many people you envisage using the resource and we’ll get back to you with a price and more information. Please also mention that you found out about licences from this blog.
Can I buy e-books just for myself?
Of course, you may just want the odd e-book – or a set of e-books – for yourself. That’s possible too. In fact, you could be at your screen reading any one of our 36 Teachers’ Pocketbooks within the hour. We’ve just launched our new e-book website from where you can browse, buy and then download Pocketbooks in pdf format to your PC, laptop and/or Mac. At £6.96 per book you also save over £1 compared with the paperback version – and, of course, there’s no postage to pay. You can download each e-book up to three times – for your own individual use. So, for instance, you could have a copy on your work PC, your laptop and maybe a Mac or PC at home. The text at the top of the e-book website page explains the order and download process.
If you’d like to see what our books look like on screen before purchasing, remember there are free pdf extracts from every Pocketbook on our website. Click here to see an example.
Pocketbook Linda
