The right digital books, at the right price
The right digital books, at the right price
Each Sora platform is free to activate and includes hundreds of no-cost, always available titles to get your students reading right away. Once you’re ready to customize your collection to meet your curriculum and enrichment goals, we can help you build a cost-effective digital book plan to accelerate your students’ reading.
- Only pay for titles you need
- Digital Class Sets and other affordable options
- Partner with your local public library to increase student access to books at no cost to your school or district
There are so many ways to get the books students need without breaking your budget.
Use government relief funds (ESF) to give every student access to digital books
Sora qualifies as an allowable use for government relief funds for K-12 schools. Download our free resources to learn more about how to secure and allocate funding to help your students read more.
Starter*Free Collection | CustomizedExpanded Collection | |
|---|---|---|
Hundreds of ebooks & audiobooks at no cost | ||
Read on every device - offline & online | ||
Partner with Libraries through Public Library CONNECT | ||
School-hosted authentication (Google, ClassLink, Microsoft ADFS/Azure and other SAML systems, LDAP, SIP, Custom HTTP, Follett) | ||
Access to reporting, title assignments & catalog through OverDrive Marketplace | Limited | |
Access to catalog of millions of titles to purchase and build a custom collection | ||
Dedicated Account Manager - day to day contact | ||
Dedicated Product Support Specialist - one-on-one technical support | ||
Dedicated school librarian - cart creation, curation and collection analysis | ||
On-demand training and custom webinars | ||
Content transfers from other vendors | ||
OverDrive hosted authentication (user login manager) | ||
Student dashboard: When enabled by your school, gain insight into data like reading sessions, books opened and time read | ||
Reserve titles from your school’s main collection, create content bundles from the pool of reserved books and provide special access codes to students to unlock the books in Sora. |
*Sora Starter (no cost) bundle is not available in the UK and Australia. To learn more about how your school can get started with Sora in these regions, contact us