Some time ago I wrote a post “ When academic textbook prices drop to > When academic textbook prices drop to $0.00 what will publishers do?<.00 what will publishers do?”

Since then Bookboon has been running hot, drug publishing a slew of free textbooks, as well as business books and travel guides.

Bookboon makes money, and pays authors, from advertisements in their books, as I suggested might happen.

Below is an example of a Bookboon book. Try it, and see what the future of textbook publishing might become: