Introducing the largest publisher of free and open college textbooks for students worldwide

Fed up with soaring prices, inflexible books and rapid fire new editions? Flat World Knowledge has the solution. Created to address dissatisfaction with traditional textbooks, we kept what works – peer-reviewed top quality books by expert authors – and we fixed what doesn’t. But don’t just take our word for it.

Flat World Knowledge textbooks have been used by:
 1600 Professors : 900 Schools : 44 Countries : 115,000+ Students

With average textbook costs of around $180, that’s a potential savings of over $20 million for students worldwide!

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