(p.185) Organizations Profiled
(p.185) Organizations Profiled
African Storybook Project
Publishes multilingual digital stories
Experiments with digital delivery mechanisms
Benetech
Reformats books for readers with disabilities
Advocates internationally for copyright exceptions
BookDash
Innovated a “hackathon” model for title development
Creates openly licensed books for South African children
Books for Asia
Ships books donated by U.S. publishers to Asian libraries
Supports community creation of multilingual digital stories
Introduced digital publishing for blind readers
Later merged into Recording for the Blind, now Learning Ally
First Book
Helps teachers and charities obtain low-cost books
Incentivizes publishers to produce diverse books
Imagination Library
Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library
Mails free books to children up to five years old
Library for All/Nabu.org
Offers free e-books to mobile users in developing countries
Runs workshops to produce mother-tongue children’s books
PJ Library
Delivers free books celebrating Jewish culture
A program of the Harold Grinspoon Foundation
Pratham Books
Publishes print and digital stories for Indian children
Created the StoryWeaver platform for open creativity
Room to Read
Sets up school libraries in developing countries
Produces original mother-tongue children’s books
SIL International
Developed the Bloom translation software
Supports mother-tongue publishing
Raises awareness of the need for diversity in publishing
Sponsors diverse authors and publishing professionals
Worldreader
Runs mobile reading programs in Ghana, India, and Kenya
Works to demonstrate the potential of digital reading
www.worldreader.org (p.188)
