Henrico County iBooks will go to residents first

The Richmond Times-Dispatch is reporting that Henrico County, Virginia taxpayers will get first dibs on those $50 iBooks.

The Board of Supervisors voted 4-0 to allow the Henrico residents the opportunity to buy the laptops, which are county property, at a fixed price before they are available for sale to the general public. Accordingly, "the sale is open to anyone who resides in or pays taxes on property in Henrico. Prospective purchasers must provide proof of residency or tax payment."

The date of the residents-only sale has also been changed to Tuesday, Aug. 16 and it will be held at the Richmond International Raceway. No date has been set for sale of the iBooks to the general public, assuming any are left.

Whew... glad that's settled!

[Thanks to all our readers who live in VA that kept us informed of the local events!]

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kaitlyn

everyone who is complaining is just mad because they dont get first dibs. it's only fair, it was OUR tax money that bought them in the first place, we should get the first chance to buy them. not to mention, the students will actually USE them and not just sell them on ebay like most people were planning on doing.

August 04 2005 at 12:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

ben

I was going to make a trip out there in hopes of fixing and ebaying a bunch of them, but the "one per person" bit stopped me. Now I'm really glad I'd not nailed down any plans. A cheap laptop is always too good to be true. :P

August 03 2005 at 11:57 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gary Troup

This is totally because they put this all over the web and it spread like wildfire. They did this to themselves. There goes any economy boost "Henrico County" could have gained by all the traveler's coming through the town...Smooth.

August 03 2005 at 11:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

rip

Is that the Dull computer guy in the picture? LMAO

August 03 2005 at 7:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

matt

Thank God my school district ordered Ibooks. It was recently on Apple news. I can't wait!

August 03 2005 at 5:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aero

Sorry, guess it was only broken for a few minutes.

August 03 2005 at 5:12 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Tony Scida

How generous of the board to let their constituents pay for the computers twice! :)

August 03 2005 at 4:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Laurie

Read link isn't broken. It's still here (and there is still a link to it on RTD's homepage): http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784228404

August 03 2005 at 4:41 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Aero

Interesting that the 'read' link is now broken. The article on the front page of the site was last updated when they hadn't yet decided. http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031784215571

August 03 2005 at 4:29 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ryan

Oh, well. I was going to make the trip but I guess I'll just have to plan something else for the day. I'm not that disappointed as I've heard that many of the computers have major problems. Now we'll just have to settle with taking bets on how quickly they'll sell out.

August 03 2005 at 4:25 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply