Textbooks Online | About Flat World Knowledge Publishing

Flat World Knowledge is the college textbook publishing company that is committed to personalization and affordability. By using technology and innovative business models to lower costs, we are increasing access and personalizing learning for college students and faculty worldwide.

To date, our textbooks are used at more than 4,000 classrooms in 2,000 colleges and universities worldwide. Flat World Knowledge is a privately-held company, with funding from Bessemer Venture Partners, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments, and Random House, Inc., among others.

We work with expert authors and well-known scholars to publish great textbooks, from etextbooks to printed textbooks. Every textbook we publish is carefully curated and peer-reviewed, the same way big publishers develop. At publication, our differences kick in. Our textbooks are published under a license and on a platform that allows faculty to further modify and personalize the content...something All Rights Reserved simply does not allow.

At Flat World Knowledge, both faculty and students win. Imagine that.

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Where we come from:

Our founders, Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank, spent a combined 30+ years working for some of the largest traditional textbook publishers, including Pearson Education, McGraw-Hill, and Cengage. In 2007, they set out to create a different kind of publishing company, one that would dramatically reduce textbook prices for students, and make it easy for faculty to personalize high-quality textbooks to improve learning and teaching.

Today, we are a fast-growing textbook publishing company, backed by Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bertelsmann AG, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Random House, Inc., to name a few. We’re proudly turning textbook publishing upside down and right side up.

How we’re similar to the textbook publishers you know:

We sign expert scholars and authors to write great textbooks. With an unwavering focus on quality, we use a modern product development process that includes extensive peer reviewing and all the supplements you need to successfully teach your course.

How we’re better than the textbook publishers you know:

We publish high quality textbooks in multiple formats at much lower prices than traditional publishers with expensive legacy systems to protect.

Our authors revise our textbooks to keep them current, but professors can move to new editions (we call them versions) only if and when you want to.

Flat World textbook prices are the best in the industry. It's true.

As higher education costs continue to rise, Flat World is committed to high quality textbooks that drive down student costs. Every Flat World textbook is available to read online for a very fair price -- $19.95. Our online Study Pass product includes the entire online textbook and allows students to add notes, highlight, use flashcards, plus view and create abbreviated study guides for the book.

Many students still prefer a print book, or at least are looking for other options to read besides online. Our books are available in soft-cover print format for around $40;a fraction of the cost of a traditional textbook! All of our titles are also available via our All Access Pass. For less than our print books, students can download eTextbooks for their iPad, Kindle, NOOK and other e-reader devices, print-it-yourself pdfs, audiobooks for many of our titles, and have access to the online Study Pass.

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