For what it is worth, Peru is currently shipping 300 ebooks on their XOs. They plan to up that to 500 ebooks. These books are hand-selected by the ministry of education, so while the numbers may be relatively modest, I am sure the impact must be enormous.
-walter On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 15:46, Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Tomeu, >> >> I thought about that myself, but they specifically are targeting the >> XO users and they mention the Read Activity, and it will be some time >> before you can read EPUB's on the XO because it will need a newer >> version of Sugar than the XO has available to it. Also they seem to >> say "not PDF" but practically speaking that's all you can use on the >> XO with Read. >> >> Sounds like I'm not the only one who's confused. > > Seems to actually be EPUB: > > http://blog.laptop.org/2009/10/25/1-6-million-books/ > > Don't know what is OLPC's deployment plan. > > Regards, > > Tomeu > >> James Simmons >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:08 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <to...@sugarlabs.org> wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 14:44, Jim Simmons <nices...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> This is an interesting article, but not very illuminating. Can anyone >>>> figure out what they're doing now that they were not doing before to >>>> make the books usable by XO users? It isn't clear from the article. >>>> They have had books in PDF format since before the XO existed, so >>>> what's new here? >>> >>> I think they are mentioning that the books are available in a more >>> light-weight format. "having a 10-kilobyte file beats the heck out of >>> a 5-megabyte file" maybe EPUB? >>> >>> Regards, >>> >>> Tomeu >>> >>>> James Simmons >>>> >>>> >>>>> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:59:15 +0200 >>>>> From: Sean DALY <sdaly...@gmail.com> >>>>> Subject: [IAEP] Xconomy: Internet Archive Opens 1.6 Million E-Books to >>>>> Kids with OLPC Laptops >>>>> To: Sugar Labs Marketing <market...@lists.sugarlabs.org>, iaep >>>>> <iaep@lists.sugarlabs.org> >>>>> Message-ID: >>>>> <378b2b050910241459y1f7015fau3bb7e711728c4...@mail.gmail.com> >>>>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 >>>>> >>>>> http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2009/10/24/internet-archive-opens-1-6-million-e-books-to-olpc-laptops/ >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. >>> What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David >>> Farning >>> >> > > > > -- > «Sugar Labs is anyone who participates in improving and using Sugar. > What Sugar Labs does is determined by the participants.» - David > Farning > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > -- Walter Bender Sugar Labs http://www.sugarlabs.org _______________________________________________ IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) IAEP@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep