Flat World Knowledge

Zivtech acts as the lead Drupal developers for Flat World Knowledge, an Open Source textbook publishing company that launched in Fall 2008. Because Ubercart was unavailable for Drupal 6, Zivtech completed the first beta site in Drupal 5, but did so with an eye for upgrading as soon as the module suite was finished. To achieve this we had to architect the site appropriately, and create modules such as the "book_bridge" to allow the site to utilize functionality that would become available after the upgrade.

More information on Flat World can be found in the following articles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/15/technology/15link.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2008-07-09-open-textbooks_N.htm
http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/flat-world-knowledge.ars

This site is still in Beta and will move to a full release on January 1st, 2009.