Few industries are more badly in need of disruption than textbook publishing.

Every semester, students fork over masses of cash for extremely expensive textbooks. Teachers choose the books, but students pay for them, so the incentives to compete on price aren't what they should be. Then, every few years, publishers make a few minor tweaks, issue a new edition, and send the resell value of the textbooks down to near zero.

Enter Chegg, a Santa Clara startup that has been crushing it for the past few years by providing students with an alternative: textbook rentals.

Chegg offers students the opportunity to pay well below cover price for books... 

Read More at Silicon Alley Insider: Startups