Alternative Business Models in EM

Some interesting "new" models.
Some are public domain, but the majority are copyrighted based on adds.
Some, such as Freeload, seems to have some pretty well developed DRM protections,since they also offer paid-copies in different formats.

Models with Books in Public Domain

• Authorama
• Literature.org

Models with Copyrighted Books

• Selling eTextbooks via College Bookstore Kiosks
  • see NACS Press Release: http://www.nacs.org/news/091908-ms.asp?id=cm

• Flat World Knowledge - Open Source textbooks. See:
  
  • Flat World Knowledge: an open-source textbook revolution?
    

• Freeload Press and TextBookMedia
  • TextBookMedia hold the patent ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION ADVERTISING SYSTEM
  • User statistics of TextBookMedia

• Bookboon

• Pharmpedia

• SafariU
  • "SafariU is a new custom publishing service offered by O'Reilly Media, Inc. and The Pearson Technology Group. An alternative to expensive print textbooks or print-on-demand services, this innovative Web-based education portal allows academic instructors and corporate trainers to create custom print books, build online syllabi, and share learning objects for Computer Science and Information Technology courses. Educators can easily compile and publish just the information they choose to teach—in print and online—and save students a good bit of money over the cost of primary and supplementary texts." (https://safari-u.dev.java.net/)

Independent publishing

In general association or author experimentation

• Principles of Marketing
• Making Photographs
• Math Open Ref (geometry)
• Psychology 101
• The Open Life: Philosophy of Open Source
• The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing

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