Working out of a tiny Hayes Valley office, a San Francisco nonprofit is persuading major book publishers to do something they are loathe to do: Give away their content for free. But the 4-year-old ...

A former Amazon executive who helped Jeff Bezos turn shopping into a digital experience has set out to end illiteracy. David Risher is now the head of Worldreader, a nonprofit organization that brings ...

NEW YORK, NY and SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - December 02, 2014) - This holiday season, RosettaBooks and Worldreader are teaming up to help Worldreader fill classrooms in Africa with e-books.

One of the amazing things about technology is that it opens the doors to things for less fortunate folks that many of us take for granted. Being able to sit down and read a good book is something that ...

A picture is worth a thousand words – but a million words are better. Worldreader, a nonprofit based in San Francisco, aims to give just that (and more) to students in Ghana, Kenya and Uganda by ...

More than one in three adults cannot read in sub-Saharan Africa, yet almost every home there has access to at least one mobile phone, according to USAID. Developing nations are among the fastest ...

Worldreader (worldreader.org), the nonprofit aiming to boost literacy by providing digital books to children and families throughout Africa and the rest of the developing world, today announced a new ...

New Delhi: Global non-profit education organisation Worldreader on Tuesday said it has entered into a strategic partnership with Reliance Jio to make accessible children's books to 15 crore JioPhone ...

A few years ago, former Microsoft and Amazon executive David Risher visited an orphanage in Ecuador. While exploring the grounds, he noticed a padlocked building piled high with books. When he asked ...