epaper would make the difference here. it would be bigger than mp3s. looks like paper and it feels like paper but the text is changeable. you can d/l whatever story you want and enjoy it in a book format, then overwrite it again and again with new text and pictures (and the illustrations will move if desired). they say it's around the corner (they said that about flat screen tvs too. it took a lot longer to get them to consumers but they got here eventually).
so you'll have epaper magazines, news and book formats that you fill as needed. with the cost of distribution near zero, the price of textbooks in africa should plummet smartly.
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