Flat World Knowledge
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Company Info
Industries
Education - Colleges & Universities
Media & Entertainment - Publishing
Location
NY/NJ/CT Tri-State
Contact
Jeff Shelstad
Job Title
Founder and CEO
Member Since:
January 25, 2010
Company Summary
Flat World Knowledge is a new, higher education textbook publisher founded in 2007. We are bringing a new and disruptive model to an old and somewhat staid industry.
Like the current industry practice, we place high value on the author brand. To that end, we are attracting world class authors. We will produce as good or better textbooks.
When we publish those textbooks, this is when we drastically diverge from the industry. Our books are released open and free to the world.
Open, through our content license and publishing platform, allows for educators to 100% control the content. Educators can now make the content fit the course as opposed to the other way around.
Free web hosted books gives the world’s learners unparalleled access and opens up the option for the learner to consume the content any way they want. Learners can purchase print, print it yourself, audio, handheld reader, and study aid products to support their own learning style and budget.
Like the current industry practice, we place high value on the author brand. To that end, we are attracting world class authors. We will produce as good or better textbooks.
When we publish those textbooks, this is when we drastically diverge from the industry. Our books are released open and free to the world.
Open, through our content license and publishing platform, allows for educators to 100% control the content. Educators can now make the content fit the course as opposed to the other way around.
Free web hosted books gives the world’s learners unparalleled access and opens up the option for the learner to consume the content any way they want. Learners can purchase print, print it yourself, audio, handheld reader, and study aid products to support their own learning style and budget.
Available Opportunities
Come help us convert our students (projected to be 100,000+ in the fall of 2010) into paying customers. We are the only higher education publisher that gives the learner access to great electronic textbook content for free. Then we sell them print, audio, handheld reader, and print it yourself versions of that free book, and on demand study aids to support their learning.
Come help us disrupt this old and tired market. We are a venture backed 3 year old start-up that is on to something potentially very large. ...
Come help us disrupt this old and tired market. We are a venture backed 3 year old start-up that is on to something potentially very large. ...
We need a Customer Service professional to plan, build, and manage a CS team as this three year old business starts to scale. We expect to have 1,200 faculty users of our site and 100,000 students by fall of 2010, and they need to be loved, or at least many of them do.
We see Customer Service as a Marketing job, not a cost center. If you want to help us build killer customer experiences, and turn our users into advocates, you might be right for us. If you like marketing and want to funnel your business intelligence back to improve our customer's experience, we can use you....
We see Customer Service as a Marketing job, not a cost center. If you want to help us build killer customer experiences, and turn our users into advocates, you might be right for us. If you like marketing and want to funnel your business intelligence back to improve our customer's experience, we can use you....
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