# Our History

## The History of the Family Business

### 1973-1978

Dan Sauer opened a small religious bookstore serving prayer groups in Southern California. Books were offered on consignment to Catholic parishes.

### 1978-1993

Dan developed a national one-stop textbook wholesale program, which revolutionized the way schools accessed new and used textbooks.

### 1993-1995

Educational Sales Company (ESCO) was founded by Dan Sauer as an outsourced sales organization for various textbook resellers.

### 1996

ESCO began reselling books. Dan Sauer and his daughter, Theresa, opened its first warehouse selling religion books to churches and schools.

### 2004

ESCO opened its first online bookstore (created by Dan's son-in-law, Jeff Campbell) through the brand ESCObooks.com. The online bookstore era began, and they moved into a 35,000 square foot warehouse.

### 2011

ESCObooks launched its first ebook reader application on Android, in partnership with ViewSonic.

### 2013

EdTech Software, LLC was born as an ebook implementation spinoff of Educational Sales Company, and operated by Dan's son, Peter Sauer.

### 2015

EdTech Solutions was launched as an ebook implementation consulting and training division for schools.

### 2017-2024

EdTech received 1EdTech Certification, and continues to simplify ebook implementation for K12 private schools through LMS integrations and SSO capabilities.

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