Worldreader, a charity who have been busy giving ereaders and thousands of ebooks to schools in a number of sub-saharan African countries – chiefly in poorer areas have just released a report about the impact their ereaders (and ebooks of course) have had in Kenya.
After several years of providing Kenyan Libraries with ereaders (Kindles) and a wide range of ebooks, by African authors and international authors as well, they have just commissioned a study that has just shown the following wonderful results:-
- Monthly library visits nearly tripled across the pilot sites
- 20,000+ patrons were reached through e-reader training
- 254 library-initiated community events were held
- 84% of patrons reported reading more
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