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The only description of the service in that article comes from the publishers' complaint, and makes it sound like Boundless provide little more than a photocopy
by jack12 15y ago
The only description of the service in that article comes from the publishers' complaint, and makes it sound like Boundless provide little more than a photocopy of commercial textbooks run through a ransom-note filter.
Yet "When asked to describe how his company pulls together the open-education content to produce its digital textbooks, Mr. Diaz declined to elaborate on the process" and so the publishers ended getting to establish the first and only concept of the company to a huge audience. And it's not like people can check out the website for themselves, since it's in closed beta.
Staying quiet here really doesn't seem to have been the best strategy.
- jsavimbi 15y agoThey were going to be sued anyways. Why make it easier on the publishers. Also, they've been at it for little over a year so they're probably still in that period where business processes are vulnerable to outside competition. But I highly doubt that they are in the business of copying textbooks and presenting it as their own work. A business model as such does not raise $10M. Just ask any professor who peddles those over-priced "class packets."