The anachronistic futurist
If you want to see disruptive change in the textbook market, then, you’d need to identify both a potential supplier of the product with no stake in propitiating the incumbents, and a buyer of the product for whom the product solves a problem. My suspicion is that your best bet would be to have the supplier and the purchaser be, in some sense, the same entity.
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aka “a network”

Noah Millman » Textbook Cases

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Textbooks won’t be disrupted. Education will be. Disrupting text books won’t (can’t?) happen without bringing about some significant change in the way the rest of the education industry works. 

Give people an alternative to the university system and you’ll quickly discover an alternative to the current textbook system.  
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