Content-type: text/html Downes.ca ~ Stephen's Web ~ Bookboon.com’s textbooks will remain free for students

Stephen Downes

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A competitor to Flat World Knowledge, Bookboon, has announced that it will continue to distribute free online texts. "They were only relying on converting free users to paying customers. I can assure you this is not the case for bookboon.com. Since the start, we at bookboon.com have taken a different route. We decided to make our free textbooks easily accessible to all students, all over the world, by creating an alliance with the students' future employers. These future employers pay for the insertion of a limited number of adverts inside the textbooks to highlight future career opportunities to students." So... we'll see.

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