MindBites Launches New Education Category

Web marketplace and platform for video instructional content teams with Thinkwell to provide access to comprehensive range of innovative tutorials

Austin, TX (PRWEB) November 19, 2008 -- MindBites, the Web marketplace and publishing platform for video instructional content, today announced the launch of a new Education category and a content partnership with digital textbook publisher, Thinkwell. Under the terms of a newly signed partnership, Thinkwell will make much of its extensive library of more than 2,500 professionally created video tutorials featuring top university lecturers available for sale individually through the MindBites platform, beginning with the categories of College Algebra and Calculus.

"Our focus has always been on connecting the best professors with the most students in the most dynamic format possible," explained Carl Tyson, CEO of Thinkwell. "Working with MindBites allows us to open up and manage a new channel for our content and allows students around the world easy access, on a video-by-video basis, to such star professors as Edward Burger."

As with other lessons available on MindBites, excerpted math help videos from Thinkwell's College Algebra (http://www.mindbites.com/series/1-college-algebra) and Calculus courses, taught by Professor Edward Burger (http://www.mindbites.com/series/2-calculus), will be available for purchase for $1.99. Once purchased, users can watch the videos repeatedly online and download versions to view on their laptop or mobile device. In addition to math help, Thinkwell's catalog of video educational resources includes Chemistry, Biology, Physics, Economics and Public Speaking (http://www.mindbites.com/author/3839-thinkwell), among other titles, which will be rolled out onto MindBites in the near future.

"The MindBites Education category is a natural way for parents, homeschoolers and students to access high-quality instructional support quickly and cost efficiently," says MindBites Founder and CEO Jason Reneau. "It also provides educational publishing companies with an additional channel through which they can make their instructional content available, and the more than 7 million teachers and tutors in the U.S. alone with an opportunity to easily publish and profit from their own instructional abilities."

Based in Austin, Texas, MindBites was launched to the public in March of this year. The company is the leading web marketplace and publishing platform for instructional video content and is backed by True Ventures, which has also funded new media companies GigaOm, Automattic (the makers of WordPress), Sphere, GoodReads, and BrightRoll among others. In addition to now offering educational videos for Algebra and Calculus math homework help (http://www.mindbites.com/category/5-education/lessons) among other topics, the MindBites how-to video marketplace includes content ranging from Crafts, to DIY, to Software. MindBites offers authors, ranging from experts to professional instructors to publishing companies, a way to host, sell and distribute web how-to videos to earn money (http://www.mindbites.com/teach) for themselves or charity.

About MindBites:

MindBites is your place on the web to find, sell and market valuable video instructional content. A marketplace and publishing platform, MindBites enables anyone to earn money for themselves or charity by sharing how-to information, knowledge, and skills through web video lessons. The result is a unique platform for monetizing instructional content, and an on-demand knowledge library that simply can't be found anywhere else. MindBites promises to revolutionize the way the world shares knowledge. For more information, visit MindBites at www.MindBites.com.

About Thinkwell:

Thinkwell was founded in 1997 in Austin, Texas with the mission to bring great teaching to students worldwide. Thinkwell's core curriculum multimedia products in math, science, and social science integrate technology, art, and video with great teaching to produce a new path to learning success for students. Thinkwell's products and courses are being used by thousands of students at schools and universities across the globe. For more information, please visit Thinkwell at www.thinkwell.com.

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