Re: [EDUC] Financement d'une start up livres scolaires gratuits en ligne, payant en papier

["Philippe-Charles Nestel (Charlie)" <cnestel AT free.fr>]

Laurent GUERBY a écrit :
> Plus d'information ici :
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> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090327/0047174273.shtml
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> Open Source Text Book Company Flat World Knowledge Gets Funded (Venture
> Capital)
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> by Michael Masnick from the disruption-on-the-way dept on Friday, March
> 27th, 2009 @ 3:59PM
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> We wrote about Flat World Knowledge, the open source textbook provider
> earlier this year, in noting how the textbook market was ripe for
> disruption. It's great to find out that the company has now received $8
> million in funding -- which seems to go against a rash of recent stories
> from publications about how companies building business models with a
> big "free" or "open source" component would have trouble raising money
> these days. FWK, of course, is using free properly -- as a part of a
> larger business model where scarcities are charged for, but infinite
> goods are given away freely. Who knows if it will succeed, but it's nice
> to see the vote of confidence from investors.
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> Laurent
> http://guerby.org/blog
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Laurent,

Serait-il possible, puisque cette information t'es parvenue, que tu nous 
en dises un peu plus sur cette "startup" de livres scolaires qui aurait 
reçu 8 millions de dollars de financement. C'est important pour 
comprendre les modèles économiques potentiels  qui pourraient émerger en 
France pour des manuels sous licences  de libre diffusion et/ou libres.

Charlie