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Zane Publishing Inc., was first established in Texas in 1995. Zane quickly became one of the largest educational software publishers servicing the K-12 education market in the US. The company published over 260 curriculum-based educational software titles on CD-ROM delivering a comprehensive library of curriculum-based teaching and testing content
for 11 subjects.
Zane’s software introduced an innovative self-paced approach to learning. It’s approach to electronic learning combined visual, audio and text components, enabling it to accommodate each of the main preferred learning styles offering significant benefits for classroom, homeschool and special needs students alike. Today an emphasis on Visual Learning continues to provide an ideal learning solution for those students living with Dyslexia and other Special Education needs.
The company was acquired in 1997 by Zane Interactive Publishing Inc., to became a public company. It rapidly developed a position of prominence in homes and schools in the U.S. K-12 education market. Exclusive marketing agreements with the Network Marketing giant – Amway, and UK software entrepreneur Nicholas Tee, resulted in the publishing, distribution and sales of many millions of CD-ROM’s across North America and other countries around the world.
In 2000, after the administrative failures of the previous management, the public company was acquired in a takeover by Nicholas Tee to enable restructuring and improved level of management.
Zane reached an agreement in 2007 to divest it’s entire library of learning content and education materials to independant developer and education publisher ZP Online Publishing Ltd. This enabled the funding and conversion of the educational teaching and testing resources for delivery online, using their own new online learning platform under their brand Zane Education.
