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...In March, Cengage, Pearson and McGraw Hill announced a partnership with Ingram and Chegg, the book distributors, to adopt a set of “anti-counterfeit best practices” aimed at cutting off the counterfeit market...
...In addition, Dan Rosensweig, the former chief operating officer of Yahoo and current CEO of Chegg, an online learning platform, has been nominated to the board....
...Chegg’s approach has been to produce a reader based on open HTML5 standards that adapts itself to any device....
...Apple’s competition includes Kno tablets designed for etextbooks, online rental services such as Chegg and Course Smart, a publisher-backed hub that already offers 90 per cent of the most commonly recommended...
...Online buy-back programmes from Amazon and others have expanded the used book market, while digital upstarts such as Chegg offer affordable rentals....
...Kno was co-founded by Osman Rashid, co-founder of Chegg.com, the textbook online rental service....
...Chegg will need all the business acumen it’s assembling to handle that one....
...Its founder also started Chegg.com, a very successful online textbook rental company. Kno received $46m in September from prominent venture capitalists, including Netscape founder Marc Andreessen....
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