Category: Green Textbooks
Chegg -- Textbooks done Netflix style!
March 11th, 2009
Rent Textbooks & Save up to 80%
Every semester you pay hundreds of dollars a textbook only to receive a mere fraction of that amount back if you try to sell it back. That is, assuming, your campus bookstore is willing to purchase it back. Because, as we know, textbooks change editions almost as quickly as the seasons and when a new edition is out your old edition is basically worthless.
Wouldn’t it be nice if you could just rent the book, and let the depreciation and changing editions be someone else’s problem.
BetterWorld -- Heal the World, One Textbook at a Time
January 6th, 2009
"Fund Literacy, Care for the Environment, and get a Fair Price on the Books you Want."
Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. They have raised over $5,000,000 to help causes related to increasing global literacy and saved over 16 million books from ending up in landfills.
