Comments on: Amazon now taking orders for XO laptop: Give One, Get One program http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-now-taking-orders-for-xo-laptop-give-one-get-one-program/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:05:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: pond http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/amazon-now-taking-orders-for-xo-laptop-give-one-get-one-program/comment-page-1/#comment-964581 pond Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:05:41 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/11/17/amazon-now-taking-orders-for-xo-laptop-give-one-get-one-program/#comment-964581 I remain intrigued by the XO as an ebook-device, and yet, I worry about the (lack of) business sense in the way the organization has gone about developing, promoting, and distributing it. I can only hope that laptop.org gets a better, more sensible (dare I say 'saner'?) CEO to run things. So I'd like to maybe try out G1G1 this year, but at the same time I'd like to wait for reports to come in from the first-timers as to what the build quality is now. How long will the offer be made? I've heard early reports that this would run through the end of December. And yet on the laptop.org blog, it is said that 'unlike last year, this is an ongoing effort.' That means to me that it will be up there on Amazon for as long as the XO is made. Anybody out there have any confirmation of this? I remain intrigued by the XO as an ebook-device, and yet, I worry about the (lack of) business sense in the way the organization has gone about developing, promoting, and distributing it. I can only hope that laptop.org gets a better, more sensible (dare I say ‘saner’?) CEO to run things.

So I’d like to maybe try out G1G1 this year, but at the same time I’d like to wait for reports to come in from the first-timers as to what the build quality is now.

How long will the offer be made?

I’ve heard early reports that this would run through the end of December. And yet on the laptop.org blog, it is said that ‘unlike last year, this is an ongoing effort.’ That means to me that it will be up there on Amazon for as long as the XO is made.

Anybody out there have any confirmation of this?

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