VitalSource Technologies, Inc.

VitalSource Bookshelf

Vitalsource Bookshelf^® is the most advanced e-book software in the world. You get three-way access to your books: download, online, and mobile. Notes and highlights automatically stay in sync no matter where you make them.

The best-known higher education textbooks, study guides, classics, and more are now available through Bookshelf. Shop for books now

Three-way Access To Your Books

Only VitalSource Bookshelf^® gives you fully integrated online, download and mobile access to your e-textbooks.

Download to your own computer, log in from the library, or use your iPhone on the subway. Bookshelf gets you your book when and how you want it.

Shared Notes and Highlights

How would you like to know what your teacher or your classmates think is important in the textbook? Bookshelf^® lets you subscribe to their notes and highlights. Bookshelf users can choose to share annotations with just friends or with anyone else who owns the same book.

Whenever people add or make changes, you are automatically updated.

Inline Videos and Animations

Digital books should be more than pictures of paper pages. Bookshelf® supports videos and animations directly inline in the book as well as links to and from the pages.

Students, you get real help from a book with rich media (where available).

Publishers, make your multimedia, web resources, ancillaries, and online assessments intimate parts of your products.

Highest-quality Images

No matter what you study—chemistry, economics, technology, history, whatever—there are going to be intricate images and graphics that are crucial in helping you gain understanding.

Bookshelf^® preserves the original high-resolution quality of textbook images, and in many books even allows you to open images in their own separate windows for zooming.

Don't be handicapped by low-resolution graphics or black-and-white e-reader displays; they just don't give you the whole picture.

Auto-update

Whether you are studying politics or genetics, in education today, things are constantly changing. Make sure you stay up-to-date.

Bookshelf periodically checks your software, your books, and the notes and highlights you make and subscribe to. Anytime there is a change, Bookshelf alerts you and gets you up-to-date.