Open source college textbooks: An introduction to a market disrupter

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Aguiar

• Book ID: 102398809
• Publisher: Wiley (John Wiley & Sons)
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 85 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 2041-8418
• DOI: 10.1002/jpoc.20068

✦ Synopsis

Higher education textbook publishing is a mature and highly consolidated industry where barriers to entry are high. The industry is currently transitioning from a print-centric to a digital-fi rst model, and this transition provides fertile ground for disrupters, particularly those whose focus is on Open Source content.