Kindle’s English language teaching role ‘re-examined’

By: on 9.18.12
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Days before US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos were due to launch a partnership, to promote US culture and provide English lessons to young learners around the world via 35,000 Kindle e-readers, the event was quietly cancelled. The proposed partnership with Amazon to develop the Kindle Mobile Learning Initiative was officially terminated on 15 August. The cancellation notice stated that the state department “intends to conduct additional market research and re-examine its requirements for this programme”. Read the full story at The Guardian.

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