Gospel.com Topics Feed - Ereader 2012-04-12T09:05:58-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/ereader/ Convert simple phones to smartphones: free ebooks for simple mobile in Africa http://internetevangelismday.com/blog/archives/7847 2012-04-12T09:05:58-05:00 Smartphone use is increasing dramatically in the Majority World. But for many poorer people who own mobiles or aspire to them, a simple phone is all they may afford for some years ahead. So the new Worldreader system which turns these phones into smartphones of a sort, with cloud storage of ebooks, all accessed via the phone signal, is quite remarkable. Free ebooks can be placed in the hands of African school students, for instance.