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= zyBooks = zyBooks (known as Zyante until 2014) is a publisher of digital, web-based college learning materials headquartered in Los Gatos, CA. They focus primarily on computer science, engineering and math.

The company was founded in 2012 by Frank Vahid (Ph.D. C.S. UC Irvine), a Computer Science and Engineering professor at the University of California, Riverside, and Smita Bakshi (Ph.D. C.S. UC Irvine, MBA Harvard), a former professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. As of 2018, zyBooks has been used by 300,000 students at 550 universities.

Each zyBook is written natively for the web and features substantially less text than a traditional textbook. zyBooks include a number of notable features, including animations, simulators, extensive auto-grading, and embedded coding windows.

zyBooks has been awarded two SBIR grants by the National Science Foundation.