improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article contains wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information . please remove or replace such wording and instead of making proclamations about a subject s importance use facts and attribution to demonstrate that importance . november 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message this article needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . july 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message bookboon type online private company founded 1988 as ventus publishing headquarters london united kingdom no . of locations 11 international locations area served worldwide key people kristian buus madsen ceo thomas buus madsen coo industry ebook publishing products free ebooks services ebook downloads advertising slogan s download free books website www.bookboon.com type of site ebook publishing service advertising yes registration not required available in multilingual launched 2005 current status active bookboon is currently the world s largest 1 online publishing company of ebooks with over 50 million downloaded ebooks in 2015 . it is focused on publishing student literature for engineering it and business students as well as short and practical business books . bookboon was founded in denmark in 1988 under the name ventus 2 and is based in copenhagen denmark and london united kingdom . as a global ebook publisher bookboon offers a wide range of over 900 textbooks for students and 600 ebooks for business professionals in many different languages . bookboon s over 900 academic textbooks freely available to students on their website are written by academics and are financed by employer branding ads which are placed in the books and which allows them to be downloaded for free . 3 students from all over the world highly benefit from bookboon s textbooks amongst others in africa where many students do not have the resources to buy books . bookboon has become their perfect solution for easy access to quality literature . bookboon also offers a selection of 600 ebooks for business professionals that can be purchased directly or accessed via bookboon premium a subscription service for private users launched in 2014 . the subjects covered by bookboon s student textbooks 4 include economics engineering it and the natural sciences while its professional ebooks focus on topics including personal development marketing management accounting and computer software skills . aside from bookboon premium 2014 was also the year bookboon launched its corporate elibrary 5 an internal learning solution for companies . contents 1 history and background 2 bookboon in the media 3 categories and popular ebooks on bookboon 4 corporate solutions 5 see also 6 references history and background edit the company started as a family business called ventus in 1988 in denmark . at that time ventus focused on publishing student textbooks written by an in house staff and freelancers . the owners of ventus had two sons named thomas buus madsen 6 and kristian buus madsen . in 2005 the two brothers launched bookboon . kristian buus madsen was inspired to start bookboon while he was a university student one of his classmates borrowed a copy of a textbook from the school library made 50 photocopies which he sold to his fellow students in front of the classroom . kristian quickly realised the strong demand students had for free or cheap textbooks . soon after while the brothers were working on the launch of metro 7 a free swedish newspaper they developed an innovative business model free digital books financed by a few in book ads with a limit of 15 % advertising space per book . the advertisers were to be companies looking to promote their career opportunities towards students and professionals . initially bookboon focused on free academic textbooks and business ebooks for the danish market . in 2006 the company expanded to sweden followed by germany and the netherlands in 2007 . in 2008 bookboon expanded to the united kingdom and started publishing ebooks in english . 8 bookboon currently publishes its ebooks in the following languages english german dutch danish french swedish and norwegian and has recently published titles in finnish spanish and czech . bookboon in the media edit in 2011 bookboon was featured in bbc news webscape segment technology show click presented by kate russell 4 this helped to broaden the popularity of bookboon s free textbooks for students . bookboon was also featured on kate russell s blog . in 2012 the guardian s higher education network published an article entitled academic publishing the essential checklist for ebook authors mentioning bookboon . 9 bookboon was also featured in an article by the german newspaper die zeit . 10 in 2015 bookboon was featured in newspapers such as the german handelsblatt and one of its swedish books was mentioned in the swedish metro . 11 in 2016 bookboon expanded its market to african countries especially in terms of employer branding . this was reported by the danish newspaper business.dk the german channel deutsche welle 12 as well as cnbc south africa . 13 categories and popular ebooks on bookboon edit textbook categories accounting career and study advice economics and finance professional engineering it and programming language marketing and law natural sciences statistics and mathematics strategy and management business book categories accounting and finance career management communication and presentation engineering entrepreneurship it management try literary critici m by dr samuel johnson job search and cv marketing and sales office programs and software personal glopment corporate solutions edit bookboon offers various solutions to organisations . 1 . elibrary solution bookboon s corporate elibrary helps organisations further develop their employees by providing a selection of business books that they can read through an intranet . 2 . lead generation companies can generate leads from their websites by implementing bookboon s business books . 3 . employer branding universities and companies can place ads in bookboon s textbooks and business books . see also edit opencourseware open educational resources open textbook china open resources for education connexions curriki flat world knowledge flexbook free high school science texts south africa khan academy mit opencourseware national programme on technology enhanced learning india open.michigan tufts opencourseware references edit is denmark s bookboon the biggest e publisher on earth publishing perspectives . 2012 03 07 . retrieved 2016 09 06 . ventus internetbutik . ventus.dk . retrieved 2016 09 06 . karschnick ruben 2012 06 08 . gesch ftsmodell die firma die studenten b cher schenkt . die zeit . issn 0044 2070 . retrieved 2016 09 06 . bookboon offers free technical guide & textbooks . www.adweek.com . retrieved 2016 09 06 . bookboonglobal business solutions . bookboonglobal.com . retrieved 2016 09 06 . danske e bogsbr dre hitter i afrika med gratis studieb ger . retrieved 2016 09 06 . metro nyheter du kommer att snacka om metro . www.metro.se . retrieved 2016 09 06 . b e r u f e b i l d e r 2011 10 11 bbc webscape bookboon e book publisher retrieved 2016 09 06 tergeist sophie 2012 06 14 . academic publishing the essential checklist for ebook authors . the guardian . issn 0261 3077 . retrieved 2016 09 06 . karschnick ruben 2012 06 08 . gesch ftsmodell die firma die studenten b cher schenkt . die zeit . issn 0044 2070 . retrieved 2016 09 06 . metro nyheter du kommer att snacka om metro . www.metro.se . retrieved 2016 09 06 . bookboon.com 2016 08 05 interview between kristian buus madsen and deutsche welle 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