Pratham Books

==Background==
* http://www.prathambooks.org/
*Non-profit publisher Pratham Books released a series of educational texts to the commons, http://blog.prathambooks.org/2008/11/on-joining-commons.html
 
Pratham has worked to provide content to the Nepalese branch of One Laptop Per Child and the Open Learning Exchange.
They have released six books - including four on introductory mathematics - under the Attribution­-Noncommercial­-Share Alike 2.5 India Creative Commons Licence.
These colourful works are available on Scribd for pdf download
* http://www.scribd.com/people/documents/128645/folder/49703?secret_password=3i31nhz6kibxvg582pe).
 
Gautam John informs me that his organisation has also been working with Connexions to build a platform for translation, re-use and remix. In the interim, comments and criticism are most welcome. Please direct enquiries to gautam@prathambooks.org.
 
Many thanks,
Rachel Cobcroft Creative Commons Clinic, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
http://creativecommons.org.au
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