One Kindle per child! Plus, $1 billion in your pocket.

Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon (dot com) is worth over $11 billion.*

He loves the Kindle. He loves books. He loves running the world's best and biggest online retailer. And he strongly believes in the Kindle's long-term global mission of 'every book in 60 seconds.'

I want to help him make that happen. I also want every child in America (eventually, the world) to have access to all the great books ever written, across all epochs, all cultures, all religions. So why not just give a Kindle to every child! First, we start with the United States.

Per the US Census, there's approximately 75 million children. The cost of a Kindle is $260 but let's assume if you place an order for 75 million you can get a sweet discount. Let's assume half off; thus, $130.

75,000,000 * 130 = $9.75 billion (9,750,000,000). And, we can personalize each and every child's Kindle. Let's say engraving at that volume costs $5 a piece. So, 75 million * $5 = $375 million. In total, about $10 billion US dollars. A bit more than I have, but less than what Mr Bezos has.

But wait. What about books! That's already covered. There are already 1000s and 1000s of great works of fiction, non-fiction classics, historical tomes, bibles, biographies and more available for free. In fact, and especially if there were an order for 75 million of them, virtually every great book, as so considered by each nation, each religion, each culture, could probably quickly and at virtually no cost be made available for the Kindle.

So, Mr Bezos can make the Kindle (the device and, more importantly, the application) a likely global standard. He can provide every single American child with a library that only 80 years ago just a very few, very wealthy could afford. Each Kindle could be engraved, say: 'Enjoy your Kindle, Brian S Hall. You now have every book you ever wanted available.'

This should inspire and motivate and enlighted our nation's children. It should spur new and better and innovative methods of wireless data delivery. It will make Mr Bezos a modern-day Carnegie. Likely, it will boost Amazon's stock price and long-term prospects. Moreover, with more than 75 million Kindles in circulation, there will likely be a massive resurgence in written content -- as the Kindle can download blogs easily. Plus, this could spur new methods to monetize great content, such as the New York Times, that are finding it difficult to live in a mostly digital world.

Oh, and if it's a miserable failure. Mr Bezos will have tried something great on behalf of the nation's children, and still have a billion dollars to play with. If interested, Mr Bezos, I can help you achieve this mission.

*the stock market varies; the $11 billion is his approximate worth Q1 2010