Using Amazon whispercast to "Publish" to your school iPads

 In our semi-humongous Michigan school district we've struggled with  content onto our iPads 

One of our principals asked how he could get 32 copies of a the book "How to Create a Culture of Achievement in your school and classroom" onto his teacher's iPads.

He could have bought the book from ASCD  Press for $27.95.  but he  wanted to know how he could put the $18.95 Kindle book on the ipads instead.

The answer was Amazon Whispercast.

1. We set up a free account for the school.  
2. He bought 32 copies of the Kindle edition with the school credit card.
3. We filled out a spreadsheet establishing 32 seperate email accounts - one for each iPad.
4. We downloaded the free Kindle reading App onto the iPads
5. On each iPad, we registered the App with one of the accounts
6. The book "magically" appeared on each iPad. 

The school saved $270 by "buying electronically"

Naturally, this process works with Kindles too  (and android devices  or computers using the cloud readers)

Using Amazon to Publilsh

As a teacher,  you can use a whispercast account to publish your own documents and distbute them to your devices in the same way.   

Whispercast Drawbacks

The biggest downside  is that the initial setup is a fair amount of work and can be a little confusing.  

They need to make it simpler for customers.  Still, their tech support was quite helpfull.

and of course, they are ultimately in it for the money. 

Link:    Whispercast