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| Aug 6, 2012 | Amazon now renting old-fashioned paper textbooks | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Amazon now offers physical textbook rentals as a ... |
| Jun 27, 2012 | Rafter Scoops Up HubEdu To Help It Challenge The Textbook Industry | Rafter, a new edtech company formed from the rebranding of popular textbook rental service (and Chegg competitor) BookRenter, announced its first-ever strategic acquisition this morning. The lucky acquiree? HubEdu: A young, San Diego-based ... |
| Feb 28, 2012 | Textbook Rental Site BookRenter Spawns Rafter, A Course Materials Management Network For Colleges | College textbook rental startup BookRenter is announcing an interesting new venture today, pivoting slightly from the singular focus on rentals to a broader market. Rafter is launching as a network of software services which basically allow... |
| Jan 19, 2012 | Educators hope Apple’s textbook foray will begin a “learning revolution” | An ACU student uses an iPad in class, part of the school's "Connected" mobile learning initiative.
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| Aug 18, 2011 | Textbook Rental Giant Chegg Now Offers HTML5 Digital Books; Buys Online Tutoring Service Student Of Fortune | As college students around the country start heading back to the dorms and purchasing their books for the semester, textbook rental giant Chegg is making major waves in the space with a number of new announcements. First off, Chegg is final... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Amazon finally introduces Kindle textbook rentals | Amazon on Monday announced that it would now offer students the option to rent digital textbooks, advertising that customers can save up to 80% off textbook list prices.
Buying textbooks in college has been a costly endeavor for many years,... |
| Jul 18, 2011 | Amazon finally introduces Kindle textbook rentals | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Amazon on Monday announced that it would now offer students the option to rent digital textbooks, advertising that customers can save u... |
| Apr 24, 2011 | Higher Education’s Toughest Test | Editor’s note: This post is co-authored by guest contributors Jon Bischke and Semil Shah. Bischke founded eduFire and RG Labs and is an advisor to Altius Education and Udemy. Shah is an entrepreneur interested in digital media, consumer Int... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | BookRenter raises $40M in Series C round | The funds will support BookRenter's strategy to focus on in-store purchases at campus bookstores
BookRenter, a rising star in the textbook rental industry, announced Wednesday that it has raised $40 million in a Series C round led by existi... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | BookRenter Raises $40M in Series C Funding | BookRenter, a San Mateo, California-based online rental platform, raised $40m in Series C funding.
Investors include new and existing venture partners Adams Capital Management, Comerica Bank, Focus Ventures, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Nor... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | BookRenter Raises $40 Million To Take On Chegg In Textbook Rentals | College textbook rental startup BookRenter has raised $40 million in funding from Adams Capital Management, Comerica Bank, Focus Ventures, Lighthouse Capital Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, and Storm Ventures. This brings BookRenter’s t... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | BookRenter raises $40M for textbook rentals | Looks like investors don’t think Chegg has the textbook rental market locked up. BookRenter, a company largely seen as the number two to Chegg, just announced that it has raised $40 million in a third round of funding.
Chief executive Mehdi... |
| Feb 23, 2011 | BookRenter Takes In $40M, Seeks to Overtake Chegg in College Textbook Rentals | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Spend very long talking with Mehdi Maghsoodnia, CEO of San Mateo, CA-based BookRenter, and you might start to think that he’s an economist running some kind of commodities tra... |
| Jan 4, 2011 | Chegg Hires Former Netflix COO To Manage Massive Textbook Warehouse | Right about now, as college students across the country start to go back to school for the Spring semester, things are starting to pick up at Chegg’s 600,000 square foot warehouse in Shepherdsville, Kentucky. The warehouse sits right next t... |
| Dec 9, 2010 | Little Bookrenter Is Narrowing The Gap With Chegg | When it comes to the quickly growing online textbook-rental market, Chegg is the young giant to beat. But its smaller competitor, Bookrenter, is making some impressive gains. If you look at traffic to each respective website, you can see sp... |
| Dec 8, 2010 | Technology 500: Tech industry is on an upward swing | If the economy is any indicator of what’s to come in the next few years, things aren’t looking too good for most startups. Yet, against the odds, 500 tech startups have seen positive growth over the last few years, and are projected to cont... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | Textbook Rentals Go Into Hypergrowth: Bookrenter Says Revenues Are Growing 725 Percent | The textbook rental market is heating up as school season gets in full swing. Chegg recently made its first acquisition of CourseRank, and Barnes and Noble is also playing in the space. College textbook rental startup BookRenter is also tak... |
| Sep 1, 2010 | BookRenter sees 725% jump in revenue | Online textbook-rental market is booming and BookRenter is cashing in
It's quite unfortunate that college students - who budget their limited funds to avoid asking parents for money - find themselves in a cash crunch when it's time to shell... |
| Jun 5, 2010 | TC Teardown: Chegg Is A Money Machine | Editor’s note: Book rental startup Chegg is making money hand over fist. Guest author Steven Carpenter does a teardown of its business model and estimates its revenues will reach $130 million this year. Carpenter was the founder and CEO of ... |
| Jun 4, 2010 | Funding roundup - week ending 06/04/10 | Pandora draws new round, BookRenter, Giiv, Snapfinger, and others also get funding
Pandora, one of the most popular providers of online radio, raised a new round of funding this week led by GGV Capital and supported by Allen & Company. ... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | BookRenter raises $10M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals | Textbook rental site BookRenter just announced that it has raised $10 million in a second round of funding.
Book rental sites promise to help students cut back on their textbook spending. Why spend hundreds of dollars on a book if you’re on... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | BookRenter Raises $10M in Series B Financing | BookRenter, a San Mateo, California-based online textbook platform company, received $10m in a Series B financing round.
The investment was led by Norwest Venture Partners (NVP), with participation from existing investors Storm Ventures and... |
| Jun 3, 2010 | BookRenter Raises $10 Million To Be The Netflix For Textbook Rentals | Textbooks are an incredibly expensive investment. And the majority of the time, you only need the textbook for a short duration. College textbook rental startup BookRenter is trying to make the process of buying textbooks more affordable by... |
| May 7, 2010 | BookRenter Adds Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph To Its Board Of Directors | Marc Randolph, co-founder and former CEO of Netflix, is joining the board of directors of textbook rental service BookRenter.com.
That’s a big score for venture-backed BookRenter, considering Randolph’s consumer ecommerce and marketing expe... |
| Mar 3, 2010 | BookRenter Opens Up Textbook Rentals To Campus Bookstores And Other Partners | Anyone who has bought a textbook, whether during college or graduate school, understands how expensive they can be. College textbook rental startup BookRenter is trying to make the process of buying textbooks more affordable through its onl... |
| Mar 1, 2010 | Knewton launches adaptive-learning SAT Prep Course | Knewton, an online test prep company that uses adaptive learning to boost scores on standardized tests, announced today the launch of its new SAT prep course. The company already provides prep courses for the GMAT and LSAT, and now hopes to... |
| Feb 3, 2010 | Guitar Hero CEO Rosensweig Trades In His Axe | New office, same job. After just 10 months as president and CEO of Activision Blizzard’s Guitar Hero division, former Yahoo COO Dan Rosensweig is packing up shop and relocating to online textbook rental startup Chegg where he will hold the ... |
| Feb 1, 2010 | Chegg Warns Rival BookRenter.com It Owns The Trademark To Being No. 1 | Who exactly is the market leader in textbook rentals is no longer just an academic debate. Online textbook rental service Chegg recently sent its rival BookRenter.co a lawyer letter (embedded below) demanding that it stop using the phrase “... |
| Jan 11, 2010 | Barnes & Noble College Tries To Take On Chegg In Sizzling Textbook Rental Market | After test-piloting a textbook rental program at three campus stores, Barnes & Noble College is rolling out the program more broadly to 25 U.S. colleges. Students will be able to rent textbooks from their campus bookstores, online, or f... |
| Dec 14, 2009 | Flat World Knowledge adds funding, launches open-source textbooks for the blind | Flat World Knowledge, provider of free, open-source textbooks intended to lower mounting book prices for college students, has come out with two pieces of news. First, it added about $2.5 million in funding last month, bringing its total ra... |
| Nov 26, 2009 | BookRenter.com Receives $6M in Series A Financing | BookRenter.com, Inc., a Campbell, California-based company that operates an online textbook rental site, received $6m in Series A equity financing from Storm Ventures and Adams Capital Management.
The funds will be used to further extend th... |
| Nov 23, 2009 | BookRenter raises $6M to challenge Chegg in textbook rentals | Textbook rental site Chegg.com may be raising tremendous amounts of funding, but competitor BookRenter isn’t sitting still — it just announced a $6 million first round.
That number is dwarfed by the $84.2 million Chegg has raised (not count... |
| Nov 22, 2009 | Textbook Rental Market Heats Up: BookRenter Raises $6M Series A | Earlier this month college textbook rental company Chegg raised $112M as part of a combined Series D and debt round, bringing the total raised by the company to a massive $144M. Competitor BookRenter will tomorrow announce a Series A round ... |
| Aug 21, 2009 | BookRenter vies with Chegg for textbook rental action | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Editor’s note: This is part of VentureBeat’s seri... |
| Aug 21, 2009 | BookRenter vies with Chegg for textbook rental action | Editor’s note: This is part of VentureBeat’s series “Startup Spotlight.” Every week, we’ll sift through the scores of companies applying to be promoted and profile the best one. Companies can sign up here at the Entrepreneur Corner, which i... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | Open-source textbook co. Flat World goes back to school with 40,000 new customers | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Flat World Knowledge, publisher of free, open-sou... |
| Aug 20, 2009 | Open-source textbook co. Flat World goes back to school with 40,000 new customers | Flat World Knowledge, publisher of free, open-source online 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 ... |
| Aug 19, 2009 | Back to School: Apps Every College Student Should Try | College is a horrifying time in one’s personal development. Aside from being “the best years of your life,” those years are also those in which your expenditures outstrip your income by more than they ever will later (with any luck and ambi... |
| Mar 26, 2008 | Online bookstore cuts student costs | A new online textbook service promises to cut the high college bill for US students. The website BookRenter.com lends university students textbooks, enabling them to save up to 75% off the cost of buying.
The start-up, launched in September... |