Slovakia Launches World’s First Free e-Books Website

Slovakia has launched world’s first e-books website to provide the public with digitized school textbooks free of cost.

People can access the website eaktovka.sk. and find a total of 26 digitized textbooks and compulsory-reading books as well as download 65 audio-recordings. The word "aktovka" means "schoolbag" in Slovak.

The European nation of Slovakia, also known as the Slovak Republic, has a population of around 5.4 million. It was part of Czechoslovakia till 1993, when the country was bifurcated into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.