iBooks for 48 bucks

The Maine Learning Technology Initiative has 30,000 iBooks that the state has mostly paid off, and they are looking to get rid of them. That's why they are selling them to the schools that they are in for $8 a pop (that's the difference in what the state has paid and what is left over). Now, keep in mind that these iBooks have been in the hands of schoolchildren for 4 years so they are probably not in the best of shape (in general), but that is still a pretty good deal.

Luckily they aren't giving the public a chance to snag any, so there won't be any stampedes this time around.

[Via Digg]

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Source: http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/state/060425laptops.s…

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The Maine Learning Technology Initiative has 30,000 iBooks that the state has mostly paid off, and they are looking to get rid of them....

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Michael

Sorry, you are misinformed. The cost to the school districts is $48.00. I maintain the 479 iBooks our district has. We are selling them to the teachers and students for $55, the profit going to cover the labor used to test and reimage them.

May 03 2006 at 12:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Wry Cooter

Why make kids with more than one Poppa pay more?

April 27 2006 at 10:50 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Peter

Yeah, I am a high schooler in Maine I can say that some of the laptops are not in very good shape. The upcoming freshmen get the newest release of the ibooks so the upper classmen like myself are always envious of the freshmens super duper ibooks. How would you like it if you didnt have any admin acess, always be watched with remote desktops and knowing more about the computers than the IT department. I changed the color of some of the menu extras and made the airport signal horizontal lines and the adminstrator thought I had hacked the system and installed "malicious" software.

April 27 2006 at 6:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

michael

ah.. they're selling them four eight bucks

April 27 2006 at 6:01 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Julian

Ummm, are they selling them to the schools for $48, as the headline suggests, or for $8, as the test states?

April 27 2006 at 5:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply