MXit Launches Instant Messaging Book

Social networking platform, MXit, has launched Africa's first instant messaging book in what it says is a bid to encourage literacy and a love of reading among youth.

The company says that the book, which can be downloaded on its network for just R13.50, will cost a fraction of what readers would pay in "traditional" bookstores.

MXit international marketing manager, Juan du Toit, says: “This is a very exciting project for us because it allows us to add online reading to the already broad online social networking and chatting model that encompasses the MXit lifestyle offering.”

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