Borders Partners with Textbook Rental Company Chegg.com

By Jason Boog 

The popular online textbook rental company Chegg.com, has sealed an exclusive partnership with Borders.

The new partnership will add millions of titles to Borders’ Textbook Marketplace, an online collection of 1.4 million new and used titles. Under the agreement, Chegg.com will be the only company renting textbooks for Borders. Students can return the books for free.

Borders CEO Mike Edwards had this statement: “As a leader in our industry, we are committed to offering the best books and educational materials to our customers, and we’re pleased to partner with an organization that shares that common vision … Chegg’s expertise in the market is an important asset to our brand and we are excited to expand the Borders brand by offering textbook rentals.”