EXTRA! -- As students gear up for the fall semester, how many textbooks that were downloaded from Freeload Press are we going to be seeing in the lecture halls and classrooms out there?
Doran -- We don’t know. We’ve had over a million hits to the Web site in last few weeks. Many students are downloading textbooks independent of instructor assignments. Our Spring ‘06 list of books that was available for instructor consideration for Fall ‘06 use, will be used in over 125 courses. And that was our beta list--which featured only four textbooks and eight study aids. After Labor Day there will be over 100 e-textbooks and e-study aids available for free downloads. Once those books have been considered for course adoption by instructors, we expect a quarter million downloads--which is only one percent of the course markets we are in.
Book Business Extra Q&A -- Freeload Press CEO Talks About His Mission to Offer Students Free, Downloadable Textbooks
EXTRA! -- As students gear up for the fall semester, how many textbooks that were downloaded from Freeload Press are we going to be seeing in the lecture halls and classrooms out there?
Doran -- We don’t know. We’ve had over a million hits to the Web site in last few weeks. Many students are downloading textbooks independent of instructor assignments. Our Spring ‘06 list of books that was available for instructor consideration for Fall ‘06 use, will be used in over 125 courses. And that was our beta list--which featured only four textbooks and eight study aids. After Labor Day there will be over 100 e-textbooks and e-study aids available for free downloads. Once those books have been considered for course adoption by instructors, we expect a quarter million downloads--which is only one percent of the course markets we are in.