Reading Rainbow Kickstarter Heads Into Home Stretch

Posted by samzenpus on Monday June 30, 2014 @10:23AM from the almost-there dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A month ago, LeVar Burton and his friends at Reading Rainbow created a Kickstarter campaign designed to bring their app for the iPad and Kindle Fire to the Web at large. They asked for a million dollars, and quickly blew the doors off their goal, receiving over three million dollars in three days. There are 48 hours remaining in the fundraiser, which has garnered over 4.5 million dollars, and with over 92,000 contributors, is the most heavily backed Kickstarter campaign of all time. To sweeten the pot, Family Guy's Seth MacFarlane has offered to match any pledges over the $4 million mark, up to an additional million dollars."

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Re:This isn't going to do much by raydobbs · 2014-06-30 10:53 · Score: 3, Informative

I thought one of the things they were hoping to do with the extended stretch goals is give subscriptions to poorer communities (libraries in rural or inner-city settings, etc) so that it could be utilized by the people who couldn't normally afford it.
Re:This isn't going to do much by CaptainLard · 2014-06-30 11:04 · Score: 1, Informative

From the kickstarter page: "And with your help, we'll provide it to thousands of disadvantaged classrooms for FREE."

I could be naive but I'd imagine the more successful the RR app gets, the more they will do to distribute it to people who can't afford it.