FlatWorld is a publisher of college-level textbooks and educational supplements for a worldwide audience founded in 2007 as Flat World Knowledge by Eric Frank and Jeff Shelstad. It was acquired at the end of 2016 by Alastair Adam and John Eielson and its company headquarters was moved from Washington, DC, to Boston, Massachusetts. Following this acquisition, the company rebranded as FlatWorld. In 2007, Flat World Knowledge was founded by Jeff Shelstad and Eric Frank in Nyack, New York. By August 2009, Flat World textbooks had been adopted at 400 colleges for use by 40,000 students. In 2010, Flat World Knowledge moved from Nyack, New York to Irvington, New York. That year, Flat World Knowledge claimed that they would save 150,000 college students $12 million in textbook costs in the 2010–2011 school year after adoptions by more than 1,300 educators as of August 2010. More information...
According to PR-model, flatworldknowledge.com is ranked 114,334th in multilingual Wikipedia, in particular this website is ranked 71,234th in English Wikipedia.
The website is placed before 710keel.com and after dt8v5llb2dwhs.cloudfront.net in the BestRef global ranking of the most important sources of Wikipedia.
