Textbook Rentals Big Business - Kleiner Perkins Goes After Chegg
TechCrunch — ... Five year old textbook rental startup Chegg is really starting to ramp up sales, we’ve heard. The average college student, they say, spends $900 per year on textbooks. Chegg saves them 70-80% of that by renting them the books instead of selling them outright. ...

Did textbook site Chegg raise $15M from Kleiner Perkins? Not exactly
VentureBeat — ... We’re hearing that a funding rumor going around about used textbook site Chegg isn’t quite right. It sounds like Chegg has some new venture backing, but the details of ...

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Textbook site Chegg.com raises $25M from Kleiner Perkins
VentureBeat — ... Textbook rental site Chegg.com announced today that it has raised $25 million in a third round of funding led by ...

Confirmed: Kleiner Perkins Gets Into Textbook Rentals As Chegg Raises $25 Million
TechCrunch — Confirming in part our initial report last month, Chegg has announced that it has closed a Series C funding round led by famed venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers to the tune of $25 million. The round also saw participation from Foundation Capital along with existing investors Gabriel Venture Partners and Primera Capital, who likely helped boost the round beyond the $15 million figure we were hearing about in November. Chegg is a textbook rental startup that lets college students rent books for a fraction of the ...

Online Textbook Rental Service Chegg.com Gets $25 Million Third Round
paidContent — ... Chegg.com, an online rental service for textbooks, has picked up $25 million in a third round of funding. Kleiner, Perkins Caufield & Byers and Foundation Capital led the round, along with participation from existing investors Gabriel Venture Partners and Primera Capital. The Santa Clara-based startup was founded in 2005, and rolled out a version of its service under the ...

Daily Tidbits: Joost kills software application
Webware.com — Online video service, Joost, sent emails to its users Wednesday announcing that it has discontinued its software application. Released just a few months ago, the software application will be shuttered as of Friday, December 19. In the email, the company claims that users will still ...

Chegg.com wants to disrupt the textbook monopoly
BloggingStocks — ... Well, this has been a nice opportunity for Chegg.com, which is a textbook rental company. In fact, as a sign of its success, the company has ...

Rent College Textbooks Instead Of Buying Them
The Blade by Ron Schenone, MVP — ... list price! Examples: Biology (7th Edition) is listed at $158.67. Rent it on Chegg for $71.40 - 56% savings! Calculus (5th Edition) is listed at $180.95. Rent it on Chegg for $62.09 - 66% savings! I haven’t personally used chegg.com so I am looking for comments as to how well the system works or doesn’t work.  Comments welcome. Source.

Save big on textbooks at Chegg
Webware.com — ... Fortunately, we've discovered Chegg, which allows us to "rent" textbooks for significantly less than buying them new--and, in many cases, for less than buying them used. ...

The Social Media & Web Guide to Going Green
Mashable! — Elsa Wenzel writes about green technology and authors a personal blog at Greenerside.net. You can follow her on Twitter. A new green era is growing, with the Obama family planted in the White House, an organic vegetable garden on its lawn and a “green path” paved in the economic stimulus package. As more people aim to shrink their carbon footprints while conserving energy and natural resources, a bumper crop of online tools can help. There are so many websites and apps built for green goals that the Earth2Tech blog devoted an entire ...

Rampant Piracy Will Be The Kindle DX’s Savior
TechCrunch — ... College textbooks are really expensive. As in, $300+ per quarter (a small fortune for someone with little to no income) for a set of books that you may only occasionally look at and will have no use for three months down the line. If you’re thifty you can sell those books back to your school and get doubly screwed when they fork over a laughably small return. Selling them online through services like Chegg usually yields better results, but for whatever reason most students still don’t use them. ...

IAC/Interactive Says Ask.com CEO Safka Stepping Down
BARRONS.com: Tech Trader Daily — ... CEO Jim Safka is stepping down from his post after 18 months on the job, the WSJ reports. He will be succeeded by Scott Garrell, a current Ask exec who will have the title of president. Safka told the Jounral he is taking a job at a smaller company and wants to spend more time with his family. The WSJ reports that he will become CEO of online textbook-rental company Chegg Inc. ...

Industry Moves: Online Textbook Rental Firm Hires Former Ask.com CEO Safka
paidContent — ... as CEO of Ask.com in mid-May, is taking over as CEO of heavily funded online textbook rental firm Chegg. Safka said in a letter to staff at the time of his resignation that he had re-evaluated his priorities and wanted to do something "smaller and more local, enabling me to have a better personal balance."  Chegg lets students rent textbooks at a fraction of the price of buying them, and Safka said in a ...

User economy v. consumer economy
BuzzMachine — I’m fascinated with the services that are popping up in Italy - and now, I see, in the U.S. - enabling people to rent instead of buy things and to rent out the things they have: to share, in short. The Washington Post writes about Zilock.com, Rent-instead.com, Chegg.com for textbooks, and Babyplays.com for toys (well-sanitized, one hopes). Not to mention the ultimate in sharing things, Zipcar. I take a tour around my house and it’s hard to come up with a long list of things I’d only want to rent and no longer need to buy - ...

Ask.com’s Ex-CEO Talks About His Departure & Company’s Chances Against Google
Andy Beal's Marketing Pilgrim — ... It turns out that I don’t have to feel too guilty about my theory. In an interview–that appears to focus more on Ask.com than his new company Chegg–Safka reveals that his brother’s death was not indeed the only reason he left the company. ...

Chegg Founder's New Venture: Electronic Readers?
paidContent — ... Is the founder of online textbook rental firm Chegg about to make a play in electronic books? Chegg co-founder Osman Rashid has now raised more than $1.1 million for his new venture Kakai, according to recent SEC filings (See ...

Open-source textbook co. Flat World blasts goes back to school with 40,000 new customers
VentureBeat — ... college textbooks, says it has expanded its customer-base exponentially in the last year from 1,000 students at 30 universities to 40,000 at 400 universities headed into this fall — its busiest time of year. VentureBeat last reported on the company in March when it raised $8 million in a first round of funding — since then it appears it has only gained momentum. With several startups cropping up around the textbook business, including Chegg and BookRenter.com, Flat World distinguishes itself as the only open-source ...

Some 40,000 college students studying on a Flat World
Open Source — ... now has 32 titles in development covering basic subjects like psychology, sociology and genetics. Instead of paying $100 for the textbooks you need in a class, Flat World claims its customers pay an average of $18. In addition to the free download students can buy a PDF version, a printed version (black and white or color), even an audio version. (My eldest is dyslexic — this is big news.) Flat World is being followed into the market by a host of competitors, like Chegg and BookRenter. This may be the best news of all. While the material is ...

Are Open Source Textbooks Poised for Their Day in the Sun? [OStatic]
GigaOM Network — ... In a post today, Blankenhorn also points out that "Flat World is being followed into the market by a host of competitors, like Chegg and ...

Are Open Source Textbooks Poised for Their Day in the Sun?
OStatic blogs — ... In a post today, Blankenhorn also points out that "Flat World is being followed into the market by a host of competitors, like Chegg and ...

BookRenter vies with Chegg for textbook rental action
VentureBeat — ... Students are tired of paying exorbitant fees for college textbooks — that much is clear. With many shelling out up to $300 for even one book, and an average of $900 every academic year, more are turning to online solutions than ever before, with Kleiner Perkins-backed book rental site Chegg leading the way. But now a bootstrapped competitor, ...

Find textbook savings with the new SMS service from Chegg.com
Gadgetell — ... (m.chegg.com) involves entering either the book’s title or ISBN to receive a price quote.  The rental cost will be sent to your email address. A perk of renting textbooks is that you can simply return them when done instead of going through the hassle of reselling them.  Chegg.com estimates that users will save as much as 85 percent off the cost of their textbooks.  However, these estimates are based on new textbooks and not used versions.  Site: [Chegg.com] Full Story » | Written by Heather ...

Website of the Day: Chegg
GeekSugar — ... But good news! I found one way to save you some serious cash during your school year - rent your textbooks from Chegg instead of buying. Chegg is an online textbook rental service that lets you use your book, as you need it - with super fast shipping and returns - instead of dropping a load of dough on a book you'll only need for a semester. The process of book ...

How to Purchase Books Online for Less
Digital Inspiration - Technology Blog — ... Chegg.com – With Chegg, you can easily rent textbooks for a period of 60 days, a quarter, or a full semester. This saves you money as you only need to rent a book for for the length you need it. Shipping (both sides) is included in the rent though you will have to pay the original price of the book in case it gets lost or is damaged. ...

Chegg Raises $57 Million For Online Textbook Rental Service
paidContent — ... Looks like VCs are really loosening their wallets. College textbook rental service Chegg says it has raised $57 million in a fourth round of funding. It’s the latest company to pull in a big round this month; RockYou, Motley Fool, and Playdom have all raised $25 million-plus rounds over the last several weeks. ...

Textbook rental site Chegg.com raises another $57m
VentureBeat — ... Popular textbook rental site Chegg.com continues to raise tremendous amounts of money — today it announced a $57 million fourth round, as well as $55 million in credit and debt. ...

Textbook Rental Market Heats Up: BookRenter Raises $6M Series A
TechCrunch — ... will tomorrow announce a Series A round of $6M, raised from Storm Ventures and Adams Capital Management. BookRenter has only raised a fraction of the capital of their competitor Chegg, but the company claims that it is growing at over 300 percent, year-over-year. The companies are loading their war-chests to fight over a fiercely competitive college textbook rental market. ...

Chegg Raises $112 Million In Funding, Debt Facility, and Credit Facility
Pulse2 - Technology News And Reviews — Chegg is the biggest online textbook rental company and they are aggressively funding themselves in order to expand their business. The company raised $57 million in Series D equity funding led by Insight Venture Partners. Insight Venture Partners also provided Chegg with $25 ...