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Show full PR textenTourage Systems™ and Cengage Learning to Bring e-Textbooks to Schools for Enhanced Learning Environments

Digital calm right away permitted around a world’s initial dualbook, the environment eDGe™, for higher education

MCLEAN, Va.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–enTourage Systems, Inc.™, creator of the world’s first dualbook™ – the environment eDGe™ – announced today that Cengage Learning, a leading global provider of innovative training, guidance as well as research solutions, will yield the catalogue of digital books to students as well as educators through the singular environment corner platform for a coming fall division.

“We written the environment corner privately for a preparation marketplace, and operative with Cengage Learning to broach report to students that they need to allege in their studies reemphasizes our mission to revolutionize education”
The environment eDGe is the hybrid e-reader, tablet netbook, notepad and audio/video recorder as well as player in one – offering users in guidance environments a multi-purpose height which combines all needed education technologies in one. The environment eDGe is built with hinged E-Ink as well as LCD screens permitting for singular rendezvous of content such as attaching relevant Web pages or video searched for upon the WiFi-enabled LCD screen to relevant e-textbook passages on a E-Ink shade, annotating in e-book margins and bookmarking sections to later review and investigate, or audio jot down highbrow lectures to store for playback later.

With Cengage Learning’s vast selection of calm and services, this partnership is an preferred matrimony of new-age technology and rich content, providing students and educators an opportunity to improve the learning knowledge. With a enTourage corner, students can correlate with Cengage Learning element in the approach never done prior to.

“We written a enTourage eDGe privately for the education marketplace, as well as operative with Cengage Learning to deliver report to students that they need to allege in their studies reemphasizes our mission to change preparation,” said Asghar Mostafa, CEO of enTourage Systems, Inc.

“Cengage Learning has prolonged been delivering digital calm to serve the needs of our customers. We are gratified to work with the enTourage team to bring our innovative instructional solutions to students by the environment eDGe – the new device which is targeted specifically for a academic market,” pronounced William Rieders, Executive Vice President, New Media, Cengage Learning. “We look forward to working with enTourage to create higher learning practice that will engage students.”

The environment corner is done up of the 9.7″ diagonal e-paper screen to review e-books, take records and draw diagrams and the 10.1″ LCD screen for surfing a Web, editing Microsoft Office papers and examination videos. It is versed with the built-in camera, microphones and orator for audio as well as video recording and playback. The enTourage corner runs upon a Google Android handling system as well as backs up all calm on environment Systems’ servers. The device folds the full 360 degrees as well as orients its displays horizontally or plumb, to view as a book, single screen, or column up laptop character.

The environment Systems e-book store includes over 200,000 trade titles, e-textbooks, major magazines, newspapers and periodicals, as well as over a single million giveaway public domain books digitized by Google. The e-book store is the key component to a enTourage Systems eco-system, providing the controlled user knowledge which also includes document back-up as well as sharing in between devices.

The environment corner will be on arrangement during a 2010 Campus Technology conference at counter 735 July 20-21 at The Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, MATRIARCH.

The environment eDGe is accessible right away online during www.entourageedge.com. For some-more report, please revisit this site, a enTourage corner Facebook page or @enTourageeDGe Twitter hoop.

About enTourage Systems, Inc.

environment Systems, Inc. is a provider of a new interactive dualbook which improves the approach you learn, do business as well as entertain. The company’s flagship product, the enTourage corner, is a extensive tablet netbook, notepad, e-reader, video player and audio tape deck that allows users to simply conduct their digital needs from a central device. enTourage Systems, Inc. is headquartered in McLean, VA. For some-more report, visit www.entourageedge.com.

About Cengage Learning

Cengage Learning is the heading provider of innovative training, guidance as well as research solutions for the academic, professional and library markets worldwide. The company’s products and services have been designed to encourage academic excellence as well as veteran development, increase tyro rendezvous as well as improve learning outcomes. Cengage Learning’s brands embody Heinle, Gale, Wadsworth, Delmar, Brooks/Cole as well as South-Western, between others. For more information upon Cengage Learning please revisit www.cengage.com.