The reason I am keeping quiet is because I am personally involved in two projects with the Namibian department of education. One for writing boards and another for tablets / Kindles. My business partners are involved in two further projects with them; 1. rolling out education via television and 2. logistics related to the distribution of textbooks. BTW: there is a tiny matter of R80million going walkabout from the department of education's budget.
The point that I am trying to make is that it is not a one or the other debate, each form has its own place, depending on who the end user is. I like ebooks and I keep them on my tablet, the department of education still uses textbooks and so do technicons and universities. (Now whether using textbooks is the way to go is neither here or there, the fact of the matter is that they are being used) Then there are people like my mother who don't understand the front end of the rear end of a tablet and who likes to go to the library to get books and talk twang with the other ol'ladies.
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