Years ago, David Risher, a former Amazon executive, came up with the unlikely plan of distributing Kindles to children in the developing world to help increase literacy.
Why take a fragile piece of technology that requires charging and Internet connections to places where infrastructure can be sparse, especially when there’s an inexpensive, low-tech alternative in print books?
But Mr. Risher has gradually found acceptance for the nonprofit he founded to take e-books to Africa, Worldreader.
Hardie Grant Egmont
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