Chegg.com is the Netflix of textbooks | ZDNet Education

Trouble viewing this mail? Read it online | Manage my newsletters

ZDNet Education - July 09, 2009
	Chegg.com is the Netflix of textbooks The New York Times ran an article this past weekend on Chegg.com (short for chicken and egg), a growing textbook rental service. That's right, textbook rental. How many college students buy used books and then return them at the end of a semester? What planet is that? Ask Wolfram Alpha My youngest son often asks whether a particular object in the sky is a planet or a star. If it's a planet, of course, he wants to know which planet. Some of them I can pick out. Venus isn't usually rocket science (no pun intended). Can netbook subsidies from wireless companies work for schools? So Sprint is basically giving away netbooks, Verizon is making them mighty cheap (at least to acquire), AT&T offers a variety of deals on netbooks (and free access to its network of WiFi hotspots) and it seems pretty likely that other smaller wireless carriers will follow suit. Get Latest Headlines in RSS		HP Mini 2140 Notebook Buy now, Only: $499 HP IPAQ HX2490C PCKT PC Buy Today, Only: $387.08 NEW TECHNOLOGIES Extreme Savings: Cutting costs with wide-area data services Download this paper to discover how businesses of all sizes realized a return on wide-area data services investment in just a few months through Extreme Savings from Riverbed. (Riverbed) Accelerating network-based backup and data replication Download this paper to see how bandwidth limitations and network latency issues impact data backup processes over wide area networks (WANs), and learn about a solution that optimizes WAN-based backups and accelerates TCP traffic up to 100 times normal transfer rates. (Riverbed) Cloud Computing White Paper: Latest Buzzword or Glimpse of the Future? Go beyond the hype and get the facts on whether cloud computing represents a real game changer for your company-or just another technology fad. Strategies for centralizing data backup Download this paper to learn about a proven strategy for combining WAN-based backup with wide-area data services (WDS) solutions to cut backup time and reduce bandwidth use. (Riverbed)
Sign up for more free newsletters from ZDNet The e-mail address for your subscription is techmails79758@gmail.com Unsubscribe |  Manage My Subscriptions | FAQ |  Advertise
Copyright 2009 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. ZDNet, ZDNet.com and the ZDNet logo are registered trademarks of CBS Interactive Inc. Used by permission. CBS Interactive Inc. 235 Second Street San Francisco, CA 94105 U.S.A.