The textbook industry’s practices are something I believe everyone should be better educated about. For instance, university students in the US pay more for identical books than their counterparts in Europe, Asia, and Africa. New editions come out more frequently than when new Significant discoveries corresponding fields are found – culminating in misleading information to teachers who prescribe the newest editions to their classes.

I go into more detail about the now-standard textbook company practices at OrganicEdu.org, if interested.

To top it all off, Chegg plants a tree for every transaction they make! With the integrity they have for good business practices, as well as environmental practices, it’s no wonder investors are lining up to back them.

For any fellow affiliates out there: Have you had trouble getting paid?

These guys have saved me a few hundred dollars this semester, so I’ve got no complaints.

again, i think you’re missing a point that i’ve made. a key issue that all online sites lack, is that they don’t have access (in mass) to the adoption textbook list from the colleges. if you had this list across 2000-3000 colleges, then you can reliably figure out which books are going to be used by which courses.

the point i’m making (among others) is that if you create this list/process, then you can easily place on top of it, the app that allows the student to directly buy/sell/trade/rent/whatever with other local students, or students in other schools that are in close proximity).

this process would then pretty much eleminate the need for “used book”/rental sites (assuming that the user base of the site was sufficiently large) which is the user asoption issue. but this would then become a marketing/business issue, and given the apparent success of chegg, i would argue that the potential for success would be high.

but a critical success factor would be the ability to cheaply.efficiently/reliably build/compile the adoption textbook list.

peace