Chegg: Allows students to rent their books for class at a discount of 65%-85% off retal price and have it delivered to their door. Students can rent books for the semester and ship them back for free when they are done. There is also an option for students to extend their rental period or buy the book should they choose to do so. Chegg offers students to rent a whole semester (125 days), a quater (85 days) or a summer period (60 days).
Oh, and Chegg plants a tree for every book rented, bought or sold.
Opened in 2007, Chegg has a philosophy of "Don't buy it!" We rent DVD's, tux's, cars, and tons of other stuff, so why spend massive amounts of money on text books you only use once then sell them back to the school for a fraction of what you paid? Renting is a much cheaper option and your saving trees from being cut down to make those new books. Growing from just word of mouth. So far, over 750 acres of forest exist thanks to all the students who have chosen to rent from Chegg.
Gabrielle Smarr
said on July 15, 2009