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Optus has teamed with immersive technology app provider Bookful to let children experience reading books using augmented reality (AR).

New Zealand's sport channel Spark Sport has added a stream of the Barclay FA Women's Super League for its fans in the country.

Earlier this year, an OECD report revealed that Australian 15-year-olds are well behind their peers in other parts of the globe in reading, mathematics and science. Recent developments have shown that many people in Western countries simply cannot count.

Promising IPX8 water resistance with a 7-inch, 300dpi Paperwhite display that proffers "the latest e-ink technology, and colour adjustable front light", the all-new thin and light Kindle Oasis is no mirage in the desert!

Launched in the UK last year, and promised to come with Auslan support in 2019, Huawei's StorySign app is now available for deaf and hard-of-hearing children and their parents to enjoy story time together.

Amazon Echo: It's in the news for "accidentally" spying on a user, sending a private conversation to an employee in their contact list, but you can now purposefully ask Amazon Echo to read you a spy novel – or any other kind of book.

Australian education company 3P Learning has received Microsoft’s major Partner award, honoured among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating "excellence in innovation".

Billing itself as ‘the first and only global eBookstore to offer a rewards program for booklovers’, Kobo Super Points aims to make reading more rewarding.

Amazon has announced that its hugely popular Kindle Paperwhite e-reader is now available down under at Dick Smith and Big W stores.

Aussie retailer JB Hi-Fi has expanded its digital content offering to now include eBooks, taking on online giant Amazon at its own game.

In a survey of 2812 US consumers, ChangeWave research has discovered that the 'iPad's share of the overall market has doubled' since ChangeWave's last survey 'of e-Reader owners', and while Amazon's Kindle is still in the lead, the iPad is very quickly iCatching up!