Flat World Knowledge has issued a press release announcing a partnership with Barnes and Noble. From the press release:
Flat World Knowledge, the leading publisher of commercial open source college textbooks, today announced agreements with Barnes & Noble College Booksellers and NACS Media Solutions (NMS) to distribute its low-cost textbooks to more than 3,000 college bookstores in their respective networks for the 2010 fall semester.
Vala ? French word for appreciation for most beautiful things.
Thanks billion Flat World Knowledge
thanks billion Barnes and Noble
That is it.
I do not believe free books. Somebody has to finance it. That is the buyers.
But I am against unnecessary expenses and profits.
Do not forget basic law od marketing.
Supply and demand.
If cost and eventually price is low then demand will be very high. Good thing about digital world when you make ” a thing ” many it does not cost you money. Then you can lower the price then demand is higher and price should be lower.
Basic concept : writing a book and publish it ,
is ” an investment ”
Then to recover that investment one has to sell a lot.
So sell your online investment at low price and generate billions of demand.
Barnes and Noble will be appreciated by all world because of their wisdom.
Now I will make aware of Barnes and Noble ebooks to 3 million university students in Turkey . I am sure at least 100.000 will buy Barnes and Noble low cost books. I hope in the future price will be $ 10 a book.
Thanks billion again Barnes and Noble and Flat World Knowledge.
This is the great service to mankind.
I hope Online Universities will follow the same.
Please follow the Carnegie Mellon Model.
$ 10-20 per course for the world.
If a course is taken by 1.000.000 students a year then owner of the course will make $ 10 million a year. It is great money .
ONLINE is for SHARE. The more you share you make more money .