$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)

$100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)

Posted Feb 3, 2006 23:58 UTC (Fri) by LetterRip (guest, #6816)
In reply to: $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet) by dw
Parent article: $100 Laptop: Great for the world, great for Linux (ZDNet)

Just looked up photocopy costs in Cambodia,

[QUOTE]A4 photo copy 80r/page, binding 1000r[/QUOTE]

500*80r+1,000r = 41,000r

[QUOTE]4098r per dollar[/QUOTE] for 2005

that comes to 10 dollars or so for your five hundered page book (assuming black and white printing) to have a commercial photocopier do it. Of course using a commercial printer and large runs would drop the price quite a bit but photocopy stock is a lot lower quality paper than a book printer stock. Of course that completely ignores distribution costs, which are a major cost factor in countries without good distribution infrastructure.

Your orphans also probably demand a much smaller profit margin and have much lower overhead and operating costs than a commercial publisher.

LetterRip

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