Comments on: Talking with Eric Frank and Jon Williams about Flat World Knowledge, a commercial publisher of open textbooks http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/02/23/talking-with-eric-frank-and-jon-williams-about-flat-world-knowledge-a-commercial-publisher-of-open-textbooks/ Strategies for Internet citizens Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:47:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: More good posts at Alex Kessinger http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/02/23/talking-with-eric-frank-and-jon-williams-about-flat-world-knowledge-a-commercial-publisher-of-open-textbooks/#comment-167509 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:55:06 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2160#comment-167509 [...] to my blogMore good postswithout commentsContinuing with my instapaper bankruptcy.Talking with Eric Frank and Jon Williams about Flat World Knowledge, a commercial publisher of open …My guests for this week’s Innovators show are the co-founder (Eric Frank) and CTO (Jon [...]

]]> By: Brad Emerson http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/02/23/talking-with-eric-frank-and-jon-williams-about-flat-world-knowledge-a-commercial-publisher-of-open-textbooks/#comment-147687 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 02:10:27 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2160#comment-147687 I don’t understand the logic of licensing the Flat World Knowledge textbooks CC BY NC SA.

This license clearly allows people to modify and share these textbooks for free as long as they attribute FWK and that it’s not used for commercial purposes.

As far as I know, people choose this license because they want people to use and share their work.

FWK, tries very hard to prevent people from doing just what the license allows.

I tried to get a copy to modify and share and was told I had to pay for a copy.

If you want to print a copy (on your own printer) they charge to you print… per copy.

I understand they want to make money, but perhaps a different license?

This is an ugly use of the CC BY NC SA license and will confuse people.

]]> By: Jim Yates http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/02/23/talking-with-eric-frank-and-jon-williams-about-flat-world-knowledge-a-commercial-publisher-of-open-textbooks/#comment-132270 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 02:55:31 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2160#comment-132270 Can you expand a bit on “…Otherwise I think Google will be there to clean up the mess.”? I presume you are referring to the Google Book Settlement possibilities.

]]> By: Greg Smith http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/02/23/talking-with-eric-frank-and-jon-williams-about-flat-world-knowledge-a-commercial-publisher-of-open-textbooks/#comment-132245 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:28:50 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2160#comment-132245 I was just thinking about opportunities that could exist for publishers willing to work for the authors. Seems like the big publishers are all jockeying for control of E-Textbooks still trying to entice our academic authors with fame and some reward. But I really think many larger institutions will start to realize that they can self publish a better product and make more profit. Companies like Flat World could be well positioned. Otherwise I think Google will be there to clean up the mess.

]]> By: Four short links: 24 February 2010 « Murder Manual http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/02/23/talking-with-eric-frank-and-jon-williams-about-flat-world-knowledge-a-commercial-publisher-of-open-textbooks/#comment-132242 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:54:23 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2160#comment-132242 [...] Flat World Knowledge, a commercial publisher of open textbooks (Jon Udell) — notable if only for Publishers need to be device-agnostic in the broadest sense. The printed book is one of the devices we target.. [...]

]]> By: Flat World Knowledge, a publisher of open textbooks « Notes in the Margin http://blog.jonudell.net/2010/02/23/talking-with-eric-frank-and-jon-williams-about-flat-world-knowledge-a-commercial-publisher-of-open-textbooks/#comment-132238 Wed, 24 Feb 2010 04:39:15 +0000 http://blog.jonudell.net/?p=2160#comment-132238 [...] Talking with Eric Frank and Jon Williams about Flat World Knowledge, a commercial publisher of open …. [...]

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