Worldreader E-Books

Worldreader’s mission is to make digital books available to all in the developing world, enabling millions of people to improve their lives. Digital technology is sharply reducing the cost and complexity of delivering reading material everywhere. Worldreader is developing the systems and the partnerships to get e-readers – and the life-changing, power-creating ideas contained in e-books – into the hands and minds of people in the developing world.

Worldreader uses e-readers, existing mobile phone infrastructure and declining technology costs to put a huge range of digital books in their hands.

Worldreader Mobile App: Worldreader has partnered with biNu, an App developer based in Sydney. biNu’s patented technology delivers a smart phone like experience to low end feature phones— enabling millions of people in the world’s poorest places access to Facebook, Twitter, Local News, Google—and, now, Worldreader Mobile.

As of recently, Worldreader has wirelessly distributed more than 441,000 African and international e-books to children in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda, and the children spend up to 50% more time reading than before, with some reading up to 90 books in a single year.

Publicly available: yes
Countries where available: Worldwide
Price range (USD): Free