Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Boundless wants to do to textbooks what Wikipedia did to encyclopedias | BetaBoston

Taking on a textbook oligopoly

"Boundless, however, is not looking to take on Wikipedia. The company actually has its sights set on a different target: the multi-billion dollar college textbook industry.

“In five to 10 years, I think people will look back at textbooks the way we look back at encyclopedias,” Ariel Diaz, chief executive and co-founder of Boundless, said. “The notion of carrying around this antiquated textbook will become very quaint, very quickly.”"
Boundless wants to do to textbooks what Wikipedia did to encyclopedias | BetaBoston

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