Chicago (September 27, 2004) – Questia Media Inc., the world’s largest online academic library, today announced its partnership with LanierThinking to expand sales of its online academic library to the secondary school education market. This growth reflects the industry’s need to cost-effectively grow current high school library collections, while providing all students with equal access to the highest quality academic resources. Questia meets the research needs of secondary school students by providing 50,000 academically vetted, full-text books in English Language Arts and Social Studies.
“Over the past several years, we’ve experienced widespread success in the higher education market with our online academic library,” said Troy Williams, president and CEO of Questia Media. “Now, we’re seeing a high level of demand for Questia’s online library as a companion to physical libraries in secondary schools, giving students freedom and mobility with access to a 24-7 online library. We see our strategic partnership with LanierThinking as a critical distribution channel for us to reach education stakeholders in key states.”
As part of the partnership, Questia is leveraging LanierThinking’s well-established, nationwide representative network to drive sales in the secondary school market across the country. As a result, Questia now has a strong presence of independent sales representatives in key states.
“Given our 50 collective years experience in the education market, we feel we are the right partners to successfully assist Questia with its entrance into the secondary school market,” said Peggy Lanier, president of LanierThinking, Inc. “We see the great benefits that Questia brings to the education community. They are exactly the type of visionary company with an innovative service that we want to represent.”
Questia’s online academic library enables students to gain anytime, anywhere access to a first-rate, 24-hour library focused in the English Language Arts and Social Studies. The online library includes more than 50,000 academically vetted, full-text books and more than 400,000 journal articles, as well as a customizable online research environment and a powerful set of research tools. As a result, students can quickly and easily set their own workspace and reading preferences, create project folders and personal bookshelves and automatically develop properly formatted footnotes and bibliographies in seven different citation styles.Founded in 1998, Questia Media, Inc., launched its revolutionary online library in January 2001, with powerful search and writing tools created specifically to help students do better research and write better papers. Questia provides unlimited access to the full content of an extensive collection of books and journal articles, as well as a wide range of tools, including highlighter, markup, automatic footnotes and bibliography builder. For millions of students and researchers, the Questia SM service enables them to efficiently research and compose papers at any time, from virtually every connected corner of the world. Based in Houston, Questia is delivering on the true promise of the Internet by providing access to a wealth of human knowledge.
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