Barrett Amos is a co-founder of NetBook. NetBook is being developed to serve as a link between a publisher and professor to create customized textbooks and e-texts.
During this interview, Amos discusses his participation in the Big Idea competition at Cornell University. In this competition, undergraduate students are invited to enter a new business idea into the competition, which is sponsored by Entrepreneurship@Cornell and Student Agencies Inc.
Barrett Amos is a 2008 graduate of Cornell University.
There are tons and tons but there are really five major publishers in the United States and they're really the ones that we need to target to get the vast majority of textbooks. So the advantage to publishers as we see it is one, it gets rid a lot of the overhead cost. You no longer have the distri...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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