Epic! Books

Sabire Akay & Şeyma Çakır

TABLE OF CONTENTS

01 WHAT IS EPIC? 03 STATISTICS

02 FEATURES 04 PROS & CONS

● Digital Reading WHAT IS EPIC?
Platform
01
● 40.000+ books
● 250+ publishers

2013
Suren Markosian
& Kevin Donahue

FEATURES 02

● Personalized Recommendations
● Wide-Range of Topics & Subjects
● Quizzes and Videos for Books
● Collections offered by Educators & Parents
● Gamified User Accounts with XP points,

Badges and Awards
● Built-in dictionary with definitions and

pronunciations
● Audio-enabled read-to-me Books



SUBJECTS

● STEM
● Language Arts
● Math
● Social Science
● History
● Music & Art
● Science Fiction
● DIY

POPULAR ONES

03 Statistics

2019 2020

● 10 million children ● 50 million children readers
users ● More than one million

● 500 million books teacher accounts
read total by the ● More than one billion books
users
read in total

PROS 04

Research Projects 1 Listening

Mini-research 2 Comprehension
projects focusing Audiobooks to listen
on writing mostly. with read aloud text

Fluency Practice 3 4 Narrow Reading
Reading on the same topic
Listening and through multiple texts for
reading aloud. vocabulary and background
knowledge

Gamified Accounts - Boundless Library - Well-known Series - Assessment and Videos

CONS 04

Limited Book Styles 1 Reporting Problems

Not all books have 2 The system can’t get full
audiobook - read to reading time
me or solo reading appropriately.

styles. 4 No Parent Control
Teachers can control content
Limited Filtering 3 with Epic Class, but parents
can’t do it.
A book for 12 yo
can be found by 6

yo as well.

Inappropriate contents - Not Useful mostly for 13+ - Audiobooks has no pictures