In November 2010, Worldreader.org began the first-ever large-scale pilot of e-readers in the developing world, putting local books and Amazon.com Kindles into the hands of 500 teachers and students. This is what happened.
Raw footage from iREAD Pilot study: Mr. Francis Kwaku's Social Studies Class in Presby Jr High School, Day 3 of e-reader introduction. What's interesting is what doesn't happen: the e-readers don't require a change in his teaching style.
Lisa Lovatt-Smith, Founder of OrphanAid Africa in Ghana, talks about Worldreader.org's challenges to using e-readers to bring books to the developing world.
David Pover is an English teacher who taught in Zimbabwe before moving to Barcelona. He talks about the difficulties in shipping books to developing countries, the promise of e-book technology and the challenges that worldreader.org faces.