The current textbook system is not friendly both to students' wallets and to the environment. Flat World Knowledge offers an innovative alternative: open source free online textbooks. Is this the future of textbooks?
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The future of textbooks

'Textbook Tuesday' is coming and it's time to rent some textbooks and plant trees with Chegg!
Tomorrow is 'Textbook Tuesday' at Chegg, the number one textbook rental company, which offers millions of textbooks for rent with savings of up to 80%. The process is very easy, delivery is fast, and return shipping is free. Can you ask for more?

Turkish schools are going green in a new campaign that will be saving 1.27 million trees a year
Green news from Turkey: a new book exchange campaign at schools launched by the Ministry of Education. The new exchange project will save more than 1.27 million trees and 110 million dollars every year!

Don’t buy books, Chegg them
US website Chegg.com provides a revolutionary online textbook rental service, offering over two million used books and 800,000 new book titles for students to rent, rather than buy. Now they have announced the launch of a new program - “Chegg for Trees†that will ensure that a tree is planted in a needy area every time a textbook is rented via the Textbookflix.com service. Chegg is delivering this program in partnership with the newly founded Eco-Libris, an organization that seeks to balance out the trees cut down for the production of books by planting trees in developing countries.