Dan Amos

Posts by Dan Amos

Dan is the founder of Tools for Schools and the Chief Product Officer of Book Creator. He is married to the children's author Ally Kennen, and they have 4 great kids.
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Feature update – more options in the text editor

We’ve updated the text editor with some powerful new features! Text coloring and highlighting, bullet lists, and special characters for math and languages.
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Book Creator transforms Graphic Organizers with multimedia and accessibility

Book Creator now comes with over 100 teacher created, professionally designed graphic organizers and lesson planners. Enabling students to make use of all our multimedia and accessibility features.
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Read mode updated in Book Creator – new features!

We’ve updated read mode in Book Creator! New reading settings, page picker, and new sharing options all arrive to give a welcome boost to the reading and publishing experience.
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A bundle of feature updates!

Here are the latest updates to Book Creator – new fonts, a language picker, the ability to group items, and more…
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Book Creator appoints new CEO – Lainey Franks

Founder Dan Amos has appointed Lainey Franks as CEO of Tools for Schools and will now move into the role of Chief Product Officer.
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You can now import your PDFs into Book Creator

This simple update allows you to bring your old PDF worksheets straight into Book Creator and customize them for your students to interact with. Bring those PDFs to life!
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Book Creator turns 10 years old!

Book Creator launched in September 2011, which means we’re now celebrating our 10th anniversary! We have some amazing giveaways to help you celebrate with us!
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‘Read to me’ books come to Chrome

We’re excited to launch a ‘Read to me’ mode. Have your book read to you with one click – new in Book Creator for Chrome and all books published online.
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Is Book Creator GDPR compliant?

We take security and privacy extremely seriously, building it into Book Creator from the outset. We are fully compliant with the GDPR.
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What’s happening with Book Creator for Android and Windows?

An important announcement about our Windows and Android apps, which will be removed from sale in the coming days.
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