We are are very pleased to announce that all Flat World Knowledge textbooks published under an open license are permanently and freely available from Saylor.org — free to read, free to download, free to share and remix under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license.
The Bookshelf will initially provide .pdf and MS Word (.doc, .docx) versions of each book. We are actively building .epub versions, which will begin to appear in the early weeks of 2013, and we will introduce a more sophisticated Bookshelf in early January. We are also taking special care to ensure that our efforts comply with the books’ licensing, and especially that our versions retain the essential qualities of the originals.
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Each of the books listed below is freely available for download, online reading, and sharing, under aCreative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 license. Please share this link (and the blog post) with your networks to help spread the word!
Like many of you, we have come to rely on the free-to-read versions of the excellent texts at Flat World Knowledge. We’ve woven these books tightly into many of our free online courses, all of which rely on freely-accessible (and preferably openly-licensed) materials. When Flat World Knowledge announced recently that its previously openly-licensed books would not be available for free after January 1st, 2013, we decided to preserve the whole catalog, which we now happily share with you.
We are grateful to Flat World Knowledge for developing such an excellent catalog, and while the versions on the Flat World Knowledge website will no longer be free, the publisher continues to provide its texts at prices significantly lower than standard textbooks and with much added-value in the form of supplementary materials and interactive elements. We encourage you to visit the Flat World Knowledge website and consider the purchase options available there. We also provide links to the site within each book.
In the mean time, we hope to see this Bookshelf flourish. If you have your own remixes or supplementary materials, send them our way.
Initially, we’re providing .pdf and Word (.doc or .docx) formats for each text, and we’ll be rolling out .epub in the coming weeks. A more sophisticated, easier-to-navigate version is also on the way in early 2013…until then, allow us to present…the alphabet:
A History of the United States Vol. 2
PDF | DOCx
A Primer on Sustainable Business
PDF | DOCx
Advanced Business Law and the Legal Environment
PDF | DOCx
American Government and Politics in the Information Age
PDF | DOCx
Building Strategy and Performance
PDF | DOCx
Business Communication for Success
PDF | DOCx
Business English for Success
PDF | DOC
Business Information System – Design an App for That
PDF | DOCx
Business Law and the Legal Environment
PDF | DOCx
Corporate Governance
PDF | DOCx
Developing New Products and Services
PDF | DOCx
Economics – Theory Through Applications
PDF | DOC
eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing
PDF | DOCx
Essentials of Geographic Information Systems
PDF | DOCx
Exploring Business 2.0
PDF | DOCx
Exploring Perspectives – A Concise Guide to Anaylsis
PDF | DOCx
Financial Accounting
PDF | DOCx
Focusing on Organizational Change
PDF | DOCx
Foundation of Business Law and Legal Environment
PDF | DOCx
Fundamentals of Global Strategy
PDF | DOCx
General Chemistry: Principles, Patterns, and Applications
PDF | DOCx
Government Regulation and the Legal Environment of Business
PDF | OCx
Growth and Competitive Strategy in 3 Circles
PDF | DOCx
How to Use Microsoft Excel
PDF | DOCx
Human Resource Management
PDF | DOC
Information Systems – A Manager’s Guide to Harnessing Technology
PDF | DOCx
Intermediate Algebra
PDF | DOCx
International Business
PDF | DOCx
International Economics – Theory and Policy
PDF | DOCx
International Finance – Theory and Policy
PDF | DOCx
International Trade – Theory and Policy
PDF | DOC
Introduction to Contracts, Sales, and Product Liability
PDF | DOCx
Introduction to Economic Analysis
PDF | DOCx
Introduction to the Law of Property, Estate Planning and Insurance
PDF | DOCx
Introduction to Psychology
PDF | DOCx
Introductory Chemistry
PDF | DOCx
Introductory Statistics
PDF | DOCx
Launch! Advertising and Promotion in Real Time
PDF | DOCx
Law for Entrepreneurs
PDF | DOCx
Law of Commercial Transactions
PDF | DOCx
Leading with Cultural Intelligence
PDF | DOCx
Legal Aspects of Corporate Management and Finance
PDF | DOC
Legal Aspects of Marketing and Sales
PDF | DOCx
Macroeconomics – Theory Through Applications
PDF | DOC
Managerial Accounting
PDF | DOCx
Mastering Public Relations
PDF | DOCx
Mastering Strategic Management
PDF | DOCx
Microeconomics – Theory Through Applications
PDF | DOCx
Money and Banking
PDF | DOC/DOCx
Organizational Behavior
PDF | DOCx
Principles of Economics
PDF | DOCx
Principles of Macroeconomics
PDF | DOCx
Principles of Management
PDF | DOC
Principles of Managerial Economics
PDF | DOCx
Principles of Marketing
PDF | DOC
Principles of Microeconomics
PDF | DOCx
Principles of Social Psychology
PDF | DOCx
Principles of Sociological Inquiry – Qualitative and Quantitative Methods
PDF | DOC
Project Management from Simple to Complex
PDF | DOCx
Project Management for Instructional Designers - Remixed Proj. Man. from Simple to Complex; contributed by David Wiley.
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Research Methods in Psychology
PDF | DOCx
Risk Management for Enterprises and Individuals
PDF | DOCx
Six Steps to Job Search Success
PDF | DOCx
Small Business Management in the 21st Century
PDF | DOCx
Social Problems: Continuity and Change
PDF | DOCx
Sociology – Understanding and Changing the Social World
PDF | DOCx
Stand Up, Speak – The Practice and Ethics of Public Speaking
PDF | DOCx
Sustainability, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship
PDF | DOC
The Basics of General, Organic and Biological Chemistry
PDF | DOCx
The Business Ethics Workshop
PDF | DOCx
The Essential Guide to Online Marketing
PDF | DOCx
The Flatworld Knowledge Handbook for Writers
PDF | DOCx
The Legal and Ethical Environment of Business
[forthcoming]
The Legal Environment of Business
PDF | DOCx
The Power of Selling
PDF | DOCx
The Sustainable Business Case Book
PDF | DOC
Understanding Media and Social Culture – An Introduction to Mass Communication
PDF | DOC
World Regional Geography – People, Places, and Globalization
PDF | DOCx
