Thailand’s education ministry plans to “develop up to 60,000 e-books to solve a shortage of reading materials facing rural schools,” according to the Bangkok Post. “About 60,000 teachers would be urged to develop the e-books and would be given allowances in return.”
The TeleRead take: Fascinating. Would that we had more details. Why just “up to” 60,000, and how many will the project have in a year? Does “develop” mean to scan or write? Is this a government version of Project Gutenberg? And, whether the books will be scanned or written from scratch, just what are the copyright details? Not to mention the hardware ones.
(Via eBookAd.)
