Saturday, February 24, 2007

Tell about some recent computer News

The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning(COSL) have made the Microlibraries projects. This projects supply more than 20,000 Project Gutenberg books by a print-on-demand system, which is so simple and cheep. The Center plans to provide 5,000 books for elementary schools in rural area because those schools have a difficulty to stock a variety of books in the school. Therefore, if schools request some books, microlibrary can print books. Moreover, when we access the web site, we can find the books in a print-ready format, so it is convenient. In order to print and bind the books, a computer, a duplex printer, a binder, and a paper cutter are required. These equipments are cost less than $2500 in total. It is possible to save money by bind books manually since a binder costs the most. COSL aims to decrease the cost to a dollar a book in the future.

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