Guest Column: What You Can Learn From Open Access
Behind Flat World Knowledge’s free and open approach to college
textbook publishing.
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Educators are rightfully concerned that learning suffers when students can't afford textbooks. They also want more content control to modify the textbook to fit their specific course requirements.
Academic authors, too, have been hurt by the industry's broken model. Royalties are shrinking from fewer new book sales. Authors face internal competition from multiple titles in their courses. Many authors are kept on a treadmill of revisions to justify new editions.
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