From January 2000 to June 2022, the price of college textbooks increased 162%, more than double the 74.4% inflation rate Read More
How does Chegg make money?
Editor’s Note: Our annual Vator Splash Spring 2016 conference is around the corner on May 12, 2016 at the historic Read More
Textbook rental service Chegg hasn’t had an easy go of the stock market since going public last November. Read More
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Schoology pockets $6M round led by FirstMark Capital
Schoology, a cloud-based learning management system for schools, just announced its $6 million Series B round of funding. Read More
If publishers were angry over cheap digital books, they’re going to hit the roof over free digital books. Read More
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What you need to know – 08/19/11
Amazon says its Instant Video library has grown to more than 100,000 titles available for instant streaming—some five-times the Read More
It’s a well-known fact that college students are cheap. It’s one of the few times in life where Read More
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Funding roundup – week ending 08/05/11
Seed-stage File sharing startup Minus, raised $1 million in seed funding from IDG Capital Partners. Early-stage BabbaCo, Read More
And the textbook wars rage on… Digital textbook platform Inkling—easily the most formidable digital textbook platform on the Read More
While the debate over whether or not college students want digital textbooks wages on, the textbook rental industry Read More
Kids really do say the darndest things…like digital textbooks are more important than sex. But that’s what education Read More
If college students were avoiding Kindle textbooks before because they couldn’t take notes or highlight or enjoy the Read More
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Insight secures $2 billion across two funds
VC firm Insight Venture Partners announced Monday that it has closed two new funds totaling $2 billion in Read More
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Chegg gets education happy, eyes digital
Renting out textbooks is so 2009. Correction: only renting out textbooks is so 2009. In an effort to Read More
BookRenter, a rising star in the textbook rental industry, announced Wednesday that it has raised $40 million in Read More