College textbooks can be very expensive, and college students in California are feeling the pain right now trying to afford all the books they need each term. As tuition and fees continue to raise for California Universities, students struggle to keep up with all the expenses which include textbooks. This is why one California college partnered with Santa Clara, California-based Chegg.com, by allowing a Chegg kiosk inside the Fresno State Kennel Bookstore. Chegg.com is a leading online ecommerce site which rents textbooks to college students around the country. Ron Durham, the director of Fresno State’s Kennel Bookstore, felt that he wanted to be one of the first California colleges to adopt this strategy and help meet students’ needs for textbooks. Durham was very familiar with seeing the Chegg orange boxes around campus, as students get their rented textbooks and then ship them back in their orange box once done with the class.
Many students are sick of paying $100+ for a textbook, only to get $40 back from selling it after the term is over. In these cases, it’s as if they just paid $60 to rent a textbook anyway and had to deal with the process of buying and selling it. Why not pay something like $40 easily online with Chegg and rent the textbook for the term, then return it easily when complete? The only real downside for using a service like Chegg, is that some California college students might want to keep the books that pertain to their major. However most students take 2 years of classes which are more general education, and are a perfect options to use a service like Chegg. Over the next year it is expected that other California colleges will partner with local company Chegg, to give their students another option for obtaining textbooks.
Tags: Chegg, Chegg.com, Fresno State, Kennel Bookstore
