Dang, If you where in a group of 10 and spent $500.00 for 10 of those iBook, You could have resold those for around $500 and made $5,000. Now thats what I call ambitious. But if you took all 1,000 iBooks, Thats $500,000 minus, The $5,000.00 Investment, the salaries and expenses. You could almost retire instantly.
Considering the amount of porn already downloaded into these laptops; you could probably charge even more. :-)
LOL. It would take a very complex plan to steal all 1000 of them in the middle of a riot! (But I'd love to see you try.)