Armed with new technology, a new business model and the good karma that comes with using one’s powers for good instead of evil, Flat World Knowledge is hoping to begin the ending of the textbook-publishing racket. I’m on their side, and am hoping they succeed in crushing the money-sucking tyrants that are college textbook publishers. (It’s cranky thoughts like these that are always knocking my own karma out of whack.)

Check out their site, as well as Hack College’s interview with FWK’s co-founder Eric Frank. The site is informative, but the interview is a concise explanation of the Flat World Knowledge business model and how they plan on making money (because even the good guys can’t stay afloat giving away free lunches all the damn time).

Flat World Knowledge will be available starting January 2009. Until then, avoid buying new textbooks whenever possible (I know that it is sometimes not) and rent when you can.

Posted by Alexa Harrington