Internet Archive Puts 1.6M E-Books on OLPC Laptops

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Submitted by waderoush on Saturday October 24, 2009 @03:16PM

waderoush writes "Brewster Kahle of the San Francisco-based Internet Archive announced today that all 1.6 million books scanned and digitized by the Archive will be available for reading on XO laptops built by the Cambridge, MA-based One Laptop Per Child Foundation. The announcement came during a session on electronic books and electronic publishing at the Boston Book Festival. Kahle said the Archive has been collaborating with OLPC for a year to format the e-books for display on the XO laptops, some 750,000 of which are in use by children in developing countries."
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by Allen Boehm (1663823) writes:

That is great! I support it and hope they run the Christmas promotion again this year.

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