Well, especially in very poor countries, i think it would be a very cost effective method to give out $100 laptops, for one reason, it may be hard to get a book publisher to donate a thousand books because it would cost them alot of money, however if you could get a book publisher to donate ebooks to put on the laptops, it wouldn't cost them anything to donate the ebooks. A high school algebra textbook probably cost $50 USD, so if they could load free ebooks onto the $100 laptop, it would end up saving governments lots of money. Plus even if a textbook publisher didn't want to donate ebooks, there are plenty of possible other sources for valuable learning materials.
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Well, especially in very poor countries, i think it would be a very cost effective method to give out $100 laptops, for one reason, it may be hard to get a book publisher to donate a thousand books because it would cost them alot of money, however if you could get a book publisher to donate ebooks to put on the laptops, it wouldn't cost them anything to donate the ebooks. A high school algebra textbook probably cost $50 USD, so if they could load free ebooks onto the $100 laptop, it would end up saving governments lots of money. Plus even if a textbook publisher didn't want to donate ebooks, there are plenty of possible other sources for valuable learning materials.