Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World
Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international non-profit organization promoting reading among children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to underserved communities and financed its operations primarily through philanthropic donations. In 2019 Worldreader launched the BookSmart mobile reading app, and soon after the idea of a new self-sustaining financing structure emerged: the …