Founded in 1998 and selected as an Inc.500 company in 2005, Austin-based Academic Superstore sells academic software and hardware to the educational community at discount prices. In January 2009, JourneyEd acquired the online retailer Academic Superstore. is an interactive merchandising, marketing and media company focused on the college student market. In April 2008, JourneyEd added to its Academic eStore Network. CCV Software acts as the K-12 division within JourneyEd. has offered educational software to schools K–12. In February 2008, JourneyEd acquired CCV Software, expanding its reach from the secondary education market into the K–12 market. The number of schools implementing the program continues to increase in January 2009, Florence 1, in South Carolina, became the first district in the state to offer the program. In May 2006 public schools in Washington became one of the first to offer this program to the academic community. JourneyEd provides a website for each school a vehicle for purchase and provides marketing materials for the school to promote the opportunity. WSIPC) to purchase the same academic Microsoft programs used at school for use in the home, at a significant discount. The Microsoft Student Select program enables K–12 students, parents, teachers, and employees of certain education driven organizations (i.e. They are also a Microsoft large account reseller. Educational Resources provides educational technology, hardware, accessories, and supplemental products for the K–12 market.
In early 2006 JourneyEd partnered with Educational Resources, in order to further the Microsoft Student Select program. KG and headquartered in Bremerhaven, Germany. This division is managed by Journey Education Europe GmbH & Co. The goal was to bring metadata solutions to universities. In 2001, with the goal of bringing metadata solutions to universities, JourneyEd acquired Hiawatha Island Software Company, Inc., a knowledge management, Web site promotion, and e-business intelligence software company.
With the founding of JourneyEd, these versions were made available to other members of the educational community such as two-year or vocational schools, faculty and staff, and individual students. At the time of its founding, vendors were typically offering these academic versions to four-year universities. JourneyEd was founded in order to expand the reach of software and hardware companies who offered discounted academic or education versions of popular software/hardware. Through a partnership with vendors and its Academic eStore Network of 15,000 websites, JourneyEd makes these titles available, and verifies academic buyers. These academic versions of software are almost identical to their commercial versions in functionality, but offered at a lower price point to eligible buyers. Vendors such as Microsoft, Adobe, Corel, and others offer academic versions of software to students, faculty, staff, educational institutions, and public school districts. JourneyEd, along with its subsidiaries, sells academic software to members of the educational community in North America and Canada.
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