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Team Jeff Shelstad Founder & CEO Dr. David Wiley Chief Open Officer Eric Frank Founder & President Jon Williams CTO
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“ Thankfully, there is now a viable alternative to these Pleistocene Epoch companies and their dinosaur-like business model. Flat World Knowledge, the largest commercial publisher of open-source college textbooks, has thrown a disruptive business model right into the face of the $8 billion annual textbook market , and it’s gaining traction fast.” -bNET News - Flat World Knowledge: A Disruptive Business Model
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Faculty Real online/LMS Integration. No different (and yet totally different) from what you do today.
“ These exciting pilot programs address the need to help the college store channel expand essential services at a time when educational content is evolving. Flat World is providing necessary innovation that could make the open textbook movement more viable and lead to other fundamental changes in the textbook market.” -Mark Nelson, Ph.D, VP for Strategy & Development, NACS New Media Solutions Bookstores
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