Can Amazon's new app help kids develop a lifelong love of reading? Seems like it couldn't hurt, especially since we're talking about an educational app. But the consensus among experts is that ...

Looking to engage young readers who are comfortable using mobile devices, Amazon is launching Amazon Rapids, a new app that features short, illustrated stories designed to look like the text-chat ...

Do you want to get the latest gaming industry news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our daily and weekly newsletters here. Amazon has launched a quirky new reading app for kids that merges the ...

Amazon Rapids, the chat fiction that encourages kids to read by presenting stories in the form of text message conversations, is now going free. Previously, Amazon had been charging $2.99 per month ...

The Amazon Rapids app allows users to read short stories presented in a chat style that sees stories progress one message at a time. Amazon announced the release of Amazon Rapids, a reading ...

Amazon Rapids is a new program that has just been launched today and it features short stories for kids. All of the content is delivered in the style of an instant messaging app and are told through ...

Today’s kids aren’t just reading books. They’re also tapping and playing with interactive stories on tablets as preschoolers, then delving into instant messaging-like chat fiction apps as teens.

Getting kids to read books can be quite the task when there are an endless number of screens to distract them. So Amazon is trying something different — short stories in the form of a messaging app.

Amazon has a new plan to get kids reading. The tech giant on Wednesday launched Amazon Rapids, a reading app aimed at 7-to-12-year-olds. The paid app contains hundreds of stories, all told in dialogue ...

Since the beginning of smartphones, parents have been trying to get kids to put them down in favor of a book. Amazon doesn’t think the two should be at odds. Today the Seattle tech company is ...

If you are a parent in the market for an app that will get your kids interested in reading or just someone who knows a 7- to 12-year-old reader, then you are in luck. Amazon may just have the perfect ...