Professor starts e-text company to compete with textbook publishers

Kathleen Gallagher:

M. Ryan Haley, a University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh economics professor, has started a company that he hopes will disrupt the academic textbook publishing industry and help college students save a lot of money.

CoreTxt Plus Inc. is distributing a free digital statistics textbook to UW-Oshkosh students that's prepared the same way as at big publishing houses.

"We bypassed the middleman, which is the people making all the money off our students," Haley said. "They're putting new editions out every few years now and it's absurd. Statistics hasn't changed in 150 years."

Haley estimates the e-text has saved UW-Oshkosh students $100,000 to $150,000 in textbook costs during the four semesters the school has been using it.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at April 18, 2012 1:58 AM
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