Textbook business

thumb|Textbooks written in Pashto distributed to Afghan school children A textbook is a book containing a comprehensive compilation of content in a branch of study serving to explain the subject. Textbooks are produced to meet the needs of educators, usually at educational institutions, as well as learners (who could be independent learners outside of formal education). Schoolbooks are textbooks and other books used in schools. Today, many textbooks are published in both print and digital formats.

e-book reading device

digital distribution service for ebooks

thumb|Chegg headquarters in Santa Clara Chegg, Inc., is an American educational technology company based in Santa Clara, California. It provides homework help, digital and physical textbook rentals, textbooks, online tutoring, and other student services, powered by artificial intelligence. The company has 6.6 million subscribers. Chegg has been widely criticized for facilitating cheating and academic dishonesty among students.

Perlego is a digital library that offers readers unlimited access to over 1.3 million academic, professional and non-fiction ebooks. Billed as the "Spotify for textbooks" by the Evening Standard, it is a membership-based service that allows users to read any book available in the library for the duration of their membership.