EXTRA! -- What would you say is the biggest obstacle standing in the company’s way to meeting its goals of having your anticipated count of texts available by September? What’s been the most difficult type of course to obtain a title for the site?
Doran -- We already have the 100-plus books in production. So they’ll be available after Labor Day. We have three publishers participating in our fall season. We expect to add more partners, as publishers get comfortable with the model. Regarding courses, the challenges are not defined by the type of course. Our challenge is get more books into the system as quickly as we can to meet the demand. We are targeting the intro courses first. These tend to feature the most expensive textbooks. And students enrolled in these courses want to see more books at our site.
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EXTRA! -- What would you say is the biggest obstacle standing in the company’s way to meeting its goals of having your anticipated count of texts available by September? What’s been the most difficult type of course to obtain a title for the site?
Doran -- We already have the 100-plus books in production. So they’ll be available after Labor Day. We have three publishers participating in our fall season. We expect to add more partners, as publishers get comfortable with the model. Regarding courses, the challenges are not defined by the type of course. Our challenge is get more books into the system as quickly as we can to meet the demand. We are targeting the intro courses first. These tend to feature the most expensive textbooks. And students enrolled in these courses want to see more books at our site.