Thread: Local high school hands out 2,100 Kindles to students
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Old 09-17-2010, 09:35 AM   #3
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Wow I would have loved that in high school! Textbooks are heavy. And you remember your Kindle, you've remembered ALL your homework. But ...

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Each cost $177.60, a discount from the roughly $200 customers would pay, said John Just, assistant superintendent for management information systems for the Pinellas school system.
Couldn't they have gotten the wifi only version which would have been a whole lot cheaper? Multiply the $50 difference by 2200 Kindles. They could have wifi in the school to guarantee availability to all.

And couldn't they have negotiated better volume pricing?
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