Thread: Any OLPC display based readers on the way
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Old 02-09-2008, 07:14 PM   #17
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Originally Posted by derrell View Post
Yeah figured I was getting ahead of myself but I thought there may have been rumors floating around that I hadn't seen.

It has been thought about though the $20.00 price tag would seem a little over optimistic.
http://www.olpcnews.com/content/eboo...ok_reader.html
Well certainly not the selling price if that is what you mean.
http://www.martin-woodhouse.co.uk/page76aa.html

clearly shows it is the build cost for quantity 1 million and up. This does not include any software. Still it is ambitious. Following the links shows an interesting reading software that is basically a dos executable. Probably not too many best sellers would be in that format .

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