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Chegg Will Outsource Print Textbook Rentals, Focus On Digital

Chegg Will Outsource Print Textbook Rentals, Focus On Digital

We’ve been writing about textbook rental site Chegg since 2007, when it was a newly funded startup. Their business is very simple: they rent textbooks to students at the beginning of a semester and collect them at the end, saving students the hassle of selling the books as well as sparing them from the inevitable depreciation. Only now Chegg is leaving that business entirely and going digital. [More]