OLPC Joins With Amazon

By Digital Trends Staff Published October 25, 2009

The One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) organization has signed a deal with Amazon to sell its low-cost laptops under the Give 1 Get 1 (G1G1) program from November through the end of the year, the BBC reports.

OLPC had run the program, under which people pay for two laptops at a total cost of $398, receiving one with the other going to a schoolchild in a developing nation, but it had run into problems with production delays, which it hopes the partnership with Amazon will overcome.

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The deal will only be open to US residents, as comes as OLPC announces that it will introduce a new generation of the computer in 2010, which it expects to cost $80, breaking the $100 barrier that was its original goal.

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