It turns out the earlier reports were indeed accurate, and the ‘Give One Get One’ program will be making a return later this year, and it will be handled by none other than Amazon.com.
This information comes courtesy of Matt Keller who is the director of Europe, Middle East and Africa at OLPC and he has confirmed that Amazon will begin selling the XO laptop in late November with sales running through the end of December. Keller also went on to clarify their reasoning behind Amazon handling the sales, stating that they are just “a small group of people,” which hopefully will put an end to the shipping issue complaints that we saw last year.
This upcoming round of G1G1 sales will be for those in the US, but hopefully the European rumors will hold true as well. As of now, neither OLPC or Amazon has let any pricing information slip, however we would expect it to be similar if not the same $399 that we saw last year. If nothing else this just gives us that missed out last year a little time to save up a few bucks before the sale begins.
Read [OLPC News]
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