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2. Amazon Gets Into the Textbook Rental Business -- Finally - AOL

   www.aol.com/2012/08/10/amazon-college-textbook...

   Whether you went to college decades ago or your child is going today, you're familiar with the time-honored and wallet-emptying tradition of buying new textbooks for a premium at the beginning of ...

3. BookRenter - Wikipedia

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   BookRenter initially received financing from several venture capital firms in Silicon Valley. In 2009, it announced a Series A round of $6 million, [12] raised from Storm Ventures and Adams Capital Management, then Norwest Venture Partners led the Series B round of $10 million, which included participation from prior investors Storm Ventures and Adams Capital Management.

4. Online book rental - Wikipedia

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   Online book rental is a service wherein users rent books via the internet. Users browse books online and have their choices home-delivered, rather than physically visiting a library to borrow a book. This e-commerce model is comparable to the video rental service provided Netflix.

5. Book rental service - Wikipedia

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   Book rental companies having a subscription-based models where a monthly or periodic subscription fee is charged and members can rent a number of books based on the subscription. Book rental companies taking a fraction of book cost as rent. This is the most prevalent model in textbook and college book renting.

6. Chegg - Wikipedia

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   Phumbhra and Rashid rebranded, launching Chegg, Inc. in December 2007, with Rashid as CEO. After ending services unrelated to renting and purchasing textbooks, [5] the company adjusted its business model to reflect that of Netflix's rental-based model, concentrating on renting textbooks to students, [6] [9] and Chegg expanded to a national ...

7. Forget buying, rent textbooks direct from publisher for ... - AOL

   www.aol.com/news/2009-08-14-students-can-now...

   Textbook rentals aren't new. WalletPop has covered several third party companies such as Chegg.com, which rent textbooks to users at prices far below retail for college book rentals, but now ...