Freeload Press would like to offer free, up to date college-level texts to students and teachers. In fact, they’d like to see instructors choosing their books instead of the $100+ commercially available texts most college professors order for their students each year.

Obviously, a free textbook is going to be a big hit with students. There are some college professors now supporting the idea, as well. They say that textbooks try to be too fancy & glitzy, and they try to cram in too much material in their attempts to compete for professors’ approval. But profs say no book can be all things to all people. Believe it or not, they’d rather see their students with an affordable text - or maybe a couple less expensive texts instead of a $400 that still can’t possibly cover everything.

Here’s another reason that Freeload e-texts are a viable option: they’re in a format students are already using for hours each day. Students are interfacing with technology more than ever today, and they don’t mind reading on their computer or portable device. The inserted ads help pay for the books to be developed and distributed. So the folks who produced the book get a fair living from it, and the student gets a quality book for free.

Here’s a video that introduces the idea behind Freeload Press, whose mission is to liberate textbooks and study aids:

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