David your points about textbooks are very good. Already there are many serious efforts along these lines. Global Text is one similar to what you envision. Open Educational Resources OER and the OER Commons is another fairly robust system. There are really hundreds of other sites with very useful resources.

So there are many opportunities for publishing, and some of those opportunities are in making what's available accessible.

So my thoughts turn to money like David's do, and like David I think that income generation is very important. But what the right plan is, is hard to say. I've got some half-baked ideas, but I think what's needed is some brainstorming to generate some ideas on how to make money in educational publishing in Uganda. There are some good models out there and lots of possibilities.

The problem of the costs is simply too important to ignore. But I think that sometimes when, even as an experiment, one turns attention on profit and income, thinking about money becomes less depressing.