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Worldreader.org Books For All Presentation to USAID 24 Feb 2011
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24 February 2011 - USAID m4Ed4Dev Seminar - eReaders - David Risher, Worldreader.org
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  • 1. Worldreader.org
    Books For All
    Presentation to USAID
    24 Feb 2011

2. Our mission is to make digital books available to all in the developing world
3. enabling millions of people to improve their lives.
4. We work with e-readers

  • A library in a childs hand

5. Battery life up to 4 weeks on 1 hour charge 6. 60-second access to 700,000 books 7. GSM-based 8. Near-zero distribution costs 9. Reading shifts from supply-constrained to demand-based 10. Rapidly decreasing costs 11. First-world technology applied to developing world problems