Worldreader
Worldreader’s mobile application is a single place to discover, read, and collect free e-books in a variety of languages, from different parts of the world. Find storybooks to read to your children, access textbooks to help you with your assignments, or look up important health information you’ve been curious about. Worldreader’s mobile reading app is available on any internet-enabled mobile phone, including on the simplest feature phones.
Why You’ll Love It
[wr_metrics type=”books”] Book Titles
We have [wr_metrics type=”books”] e-book titles from over 150 publishers from around the world, including:
- Pratham Books (India)
- Kenya Literature Bureau (Kenya)
- Penguin Random House (US)
- Sub-Saharan Publishers (Ghana)
- Cambridge University Press (UK)
- Kachifo Ltd. (Nigeria)
- Mills & Boon (UK)
- Open Road Media (US)
70 Genres
The Worldreader app spans 70 genres, including:
- STEM Textbooks
- Fantasy
- Thrillers
- Health
- Memoirs
- Learn to Read
- Romance
- Caine Prize Winners
[wr_metrics type=”languages”] Languages
Currently we offer stories and books in [wr_metrics type=”languages”] languages, including:
- Kiswahili
- Igbo
- Hausa
- French
- Afrikaans
- Hindi
- Gujarati
- English
Features
Works on Any Phone or Tablet
Read on any internet-enabled phone, whether that be a simple feature phone or the latest smartphone.
Supports Any Language
Our reading app supports a variety of languages including those using non-Roman scripts such as Arabic, Amharic, Hindi.
Read Offline
Know you’ll have limited connectivity? Download your books and read them anytime, anywhere.
Personalized Reading
Grow your personal library just by reading or add the e-books you’ve enjoyed most to your favorites list.
Key Partners
Opera Software is promoting Worldreader to their millions of users across 34 sub-Saharan African countries.
The Mozilla Foundation is supporting Worldreader by installing the app on Firefox phones sold in Africa and Latin America and promoting it in the Firefox Store.
Microsoft has been collaborating with Worldreader to develop a digital reading solution for Windows Mobile and other Microsoft phones.
biNu, Worldreader’s first mobile platform partner, developed the first versions of Worldreader, enabling over 4 million people in the developing world to read books on their mobile phones for free.
The Worldreader Team:
Perisa
Flavia
Wendy
Begoña
Mike
The team is a quirky bunch of geeks determined to get books onto people’s mobile phones so that they can read more and read better. We are constantly cooking up new ways to get books to millions of people via a portfolio of cool mobile applications designed especially for users in emerging and low-income countries.
We’re doing anything from designing and developing mobile apps to mining our huge amounts of data to learn more about our users, their favorite books and places to read, to finding partners that help us scale. We spend all of our time working towards a world in which everyone in it has a library in their pocket.
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