Walk through a bookstore and you can see $5.99 paperbacks along one wall and omg-how-much? college textbooks along the other. E-textbook company RedShelf today announced it raised a $4 million Series
The online textbook service Chegg today announced that it has acquired Imagine Easy Solutions for $42 million. Imagine Easy is the company behind online bibliography and research tools like EasyBib (
Over the past few years, change has come to the textbook market in a big way. Chegg, one of the first companies to bring textbook purchasing and rentals online and reach a sizable audience, has begun
When Flat World Knowledge first emerged back in 2007, the company was on a mission to overturn the textbook industry, and the staid world of educational publishing along with it. One of the pioneers i
<a target="_blank" href="http://www.chegg.com/">Chegg</a> has long been known as a textbook company, becoming one of the first companies to bring textbook rental online and reach widespread adoption.
Since first emerging early last year, Boston-based startup <a target="_blank" href="https://www.boundless.com/">Boundless</a> has been on a mission to give students a free alternative to the financial
For many startups, creating the educational platform (and learning experience) of the future began with reinventing the presentation, distribution -- really, the essence -- of educational content. And
Since it first appeared earlier this year, Boston-based educational startup <a target="_blank" href="http://www.boundless.com/">Boundless</a> has been on a mission to ensure that college students have
Founded in 2009, <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kno.com/">Kno</a> began its career with ambitious plans to disrupt education with a little mobile hardware -- by developing a tablet that was tailo
Inkling Co-founder and CEO Matthew MacInnis tells us that, two years ago, the team set out to build a publishing platform that would redefine digital media, starting with the reinvention of the textbo