"A project based on the open source software model aims to
create free online textbooks for developing nations. Under careful
academic oversight, the Global Text Project will produce 1000
textbooks for undergraduate studies in a range of subjects
including business, science and arts.
"The project was initiated by South Australian-born Professor
Rick Watson of the University of Georgia Business, who found that
discounts currently offered by textbook publishers to developing
countries simply cannot bring prices low enough for education to be
affordable..."
