Boundless Learning Raises $8 Million, Led by Venrock, Amidst Lawsuit From...
Innovative companies attract venture dollars. Disruptive ones raise the ire of incumbents before they've really even gotten started. Boundless Learning, the Boston-based open textbook company, today...
View ArticlemyBookCrate: The Cheap, Anonymous Way To Buy & Sell Textbooks Without...
Boston University junior Erik Bogaard had been studying economics when he realized there was one market he hated crunching numbers in: Textbooks. He discovered used books were selling for 75 percent...
View ArticleWhere's the Cheapest Place to Buy Textbooks? CourseBooks Lets You Compare Prices
College bookstores might be convenient, but they sure aren’t cheap. And as Alex Lustick and Sean Haufler watched prices continue to rise, they knew they needed to take action. “They act like they’re...
View ArticleMoving Beyond the Textbook Part 2
Traditional textbooks are tools that don’t allow for much innovation. Recently, we blogged about why textbooks are broken, but this week we’re exploring if e-textbooks, also just called e-books, are a...
View ArticleBack to School: Bargains and Discount Shopping
1. Moving into your new dorm Moving into a new place can be stressful…and pricey. Luckily, there are plenty of ways to make this process easier, both on yourself and on your wallet. Costco is a great...
View ArticleCollege Textbook Prices Have Surpassed the Housing Bubble, Rising an Alarming...
After shelling out wads of cash at the college bookstore semester after semester, any well-versed, eloquently-spoken, straight A student can admit: textbooks ain’t cheap. What’s worse than that $200...
View ArticleBoundless is Now Being Used By Students at Over Half of the Country's Colleges
College textbook prices have risen an alarming 812 percent since 1978, meaning: students need Boundless now more than ever. Considering the company’s free online textbooks and study tools have found...
View ArticleWhy Go Broke When You Can Get Free Textbooks? [Video]
Textbooks suck—and we’re not the only ones who think so. Students in Tennessee have channeled their frustrations with textbooks into a catchy rap video. Dropping loads of cash on books every semester...
View ArticleHow to Fix a Broken Textbook Industry
The Problem: Students are currently paying an average of $1,230 per year for their course materials. This is about 15% of the cost of tuition at the average public university. One of the reasons...
View ArticleDigital Vs. Print Textbooks
With seven in ten undergraduate students citing high costs as reason not to purchase one or more of their required academic texts, it is clear that exorbitant textbooks are a serious educational...
View ArticleNew Boundless Data Highlights the Dismal Future of Traditional Textbooks
In January, Boston-based Boundless announced the company’s free online textbooks and study tools had found their way into the hands of students at more than half of the country’s colleges. Today,...
View Article7 Alternatives to Save You From Spending Hundreds at Your College Bookstore
After hearing the words, “My school bus is my limo,” cooly uttered by the most stylish pack of 10- to 13-year-olds Kmart has ever produced, the realization dawned: back-to-school season is here....
View ArticleBoundless' New Partnership Will Bring Affordable Educational Content to 300K...
Boston-based Boundless has been striving to break down barriers in education by making affordable textbooks available to the masses. And a new partnership announced Thursday with mobile and Web-based...
View ArticleNew Software Proves Boundless Isn't Just Serving Students with Textbooks Anymore
The average college student shells out $1,200 annually just on textbooks. Although appalling, the sky-high sticker price has proven to be an advantage for Boston-based Boundless, which has grown to...
View Article7 Money-Saving Alternatives to the College Bookstore
College students start college knowing that, once that costly degree is in hand, they will be shackled to nearly $30,000 in debt. Already discouraged, their financial future looking bleak, they trudge...
View ArticleCollege Students Can Now #OccupytheBookstore to Score Cheaper Textbooks
Although frigid temperatures, dangerously low wind chills and snow have been terrorizing Boston, the spring semester is just about to start heating up. And with that, bookstores will become the new,...
View ArticleBoundless Acquired by Valore in Boston Ed Tech Consolidation
Two Boston tech startups that have reimagined key parts of the college student experience are joining forces. Valore, focused on affordable textbooks and student loans, announced it has acquired...
View ArticleValore Switches CEOs, Discloses 'Restructuring'
As we mentioned earlier this week in the Beat, we got word that the digital textbook marketplace Valore has recently made high-level personnel changes. We've now gotten more details confirming that...
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