Yes, that's the plan

Yes, that's the plan

Posted Feb 3, 2006 2:50 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242)
In reply to: $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet) by sbergman27
Parent article: $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)

I read something last year about this. Part of the plan is to save on the cost of textbooks. Remember, this is for the third world, not Ivy League schools. Think dirt poor kids who need a dirt poor solution. Some of these kids are learning from books decades old because it's all they can get cheap. They can't afford new books, and even if they could, they would fall apart too quickly.

Who says they have to be downloaded from the net, and who says a traditional publisher has to create them? It's the very cost of printing which makes this cheaper. All that paper and the bookbinding factories, think of how many books that is for millions of kids in countries which have massive poverty. Much cheaper to buy a million of these and preload them with books.

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