Rockstand has partnered with READ India to give away various e-books to villagers at 16 READ India centres across the country. This will include various e-books, e-newspapers and e-magazines that users will be able to access through installed ‘MLibrary Kiosk’ at READ centers. The companies mention that the first MLibrary initiative was inaugurated on the 22nd of May at the READ Model Center in Dwarka, New Delhi. The event included a training program to educate villagers on how to use the app and the MLibrary mechanism, and claims to have offered books worth Rs 1.5 crore to the villagers. The organizations also claim that the content read by users is monitored, so volunteers can better guide students in areas of their interest. For a start, the initiative will be piloted in 3 centres by June end, in Delhi, Gurgaon and Jhajar. The initiative will then be expanded to cover the rest of READ’s 13 centres in Delhi, Haryana, Maharashtra, Manipur, Karnataka, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, and West Bengal within the next 6 months. Founded in 2001, Rights Education and Development Center (READ) is an NGO that works with underprivileged and economically oppressed people. Handygo owned e-books and digital magazine storefront Rockstand, offers a collection of e-books and digital magazines that can be accessed via its Android, iOS and Windows Phone app. It also offers fiction and nonfiction reading across genres ranging from health to kids, travel and cooking. It claims to have 150,000 titles including over 1500 magazines live on its…
