Open-access textbooks and financial sustainability: A case study on flat world knowledge
| Published | June 2012 |
| Type of work | Article |
| Journal | International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning Volume 12, Issue 5, Pages 18-26 |
| Publisher | Athabasca University Press |
| Country | Canada, North America |
ABSTRACT
Many college students and their families are concerned about the high costs of textbooks. A company called Flat World Knowledge both gives away and sells open-source textbooks in a way it believes to be financially sustainable. This article reports on the financial sustainability of the Flat World Knowledge open-source textbook model after one year of operation.| Keywords | electronic textbooks · Flat World Knowledge · open access · Open Educational Resources · open textbooks · sustainability |
| Published at | Athabasca |
| Language | eng |
| ISSN | 1492-3831 |
| Accession number | WOS:000297792100003 |
| Rights | by/3.0 |
| URL | http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/960/1860 |
| Export options | BibTex · EndNote · Tagged XML · Google Scholar |
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