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Chegg adds another $75M to textbook rental cash pile
Textbook rental site Chegg has raised another $75 million in funding, according a report in All Things Digital. Chegg was already one of the best-funded startups around, previously raising $84.2...
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Chegg moves beyond textbooks with course selection, homework help
Chegg is already leading the pack of textbook rental websites, and with new features unveiled today, it’s moving closer to chief executive Dan Rosensweig’s vision of reaching college students every day...
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Cha-ching! Chegg raises $25M more for textbook and education platform
Textbook rental service Chegg has raised nearly $25 million in equity funding, according to a form D the company filed Friday with the Securities and Exchange commission. “The funding is led by...
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Amazon now renting old-fashioned paper textbooks
Amazon now offers physical textbook rentals as a cheaper option for college students, a move designed to keep Amazon as a dominant player in textbooks. While Amazon has offered digital rentals of...
View ArticleSEC filing cracks the egg on Chegg’s Notehall purchase
New details on Chegg’s June acquisition of Notehall came through SEC filings yesterday. We do not know how much cash the textbook renting company paid for Notehall, a provider of lecture notes, but...
View ArticleCampusBookRentals.com grabs $20M to head off back to school fever
CampusBookRentals.com announced on Tuesday they raised a $20 million second round of financing, just in time for the back to school craze. The round led by Level Equity, Five Elms Capital and Cherokee...
View ArticleChegg CEO: I want students’ business 365 days a year
High-profile Silicon Valley startup Chegg just raised $75 million to keep expanding its core business of shipping used textbooks to college students. But CEO Dan Rosensweig said that the company is...
View ArticleBookRenter 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...
View ArticleAmazon 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...
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