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It may be a paper weight for Developed country but for a country like India, its boon. Students can get e-education and use of paper books will decrease.
by catchnames 15y ago
It may be a paper weight for Developed country but for a country like India, its boon. Students can get e-education and use of paper books will decrease.
- teyc 15y agoAs far as I'm aware, books are cheap in India. I wonder what usecase would justify an underpowered tablet.
- catchnames 15y agoYou think 20 books for whole academic year are enough? With government incentive study material would be in thousands, students will be encourage to do more research on topic from different sources. Even cost of 20 engineering book would be at least 10000 Indian rupee. While Aakash Tablet cost them less than 1200 INR (23$)
- teyc 15y agoWell that's true, assuming that digital distribution is less expensive (likely) and the copyright holders are not charging anything (less likely).
- catchnames 15y agoYou didn't get the point. Government is also working with leading institutions in country, they will provide the material mostly in PDF format free to download. Other than that, internet itself is full of education material like youtube, khanacadmy.org etc.