Sidewalk

We were founded as CampusBookRentals in the Summer of 2007 by a college student who couldn't make sense of textbook prices, and the inefficiencies that seemed to be driving them up. He proposed that renting textbooks might be part of the answer. The concept took off, creating one of the fastest growing companies in America and forever changing the... rules of the ten billion dollar higher education content industry. Less than a year after being founded, we were convinced that the best way to deliver value to students was through the college bookstore. In the Fall of 2009, we became the first company to bring textbook rentals right to the campus through an innovative in-store partnership. By the fall of 2012, our in-store rental platform sat in front of over one million students. Since that time, we have continued to develop products that challenge existing conventions and deliver real value to faculty, students and stores. You can see what we build on our products page. In the Spring of 2013, we changed our name to Sidewalk to more accurately reflect who we are, and what we're doing. Sidewalks are where people gather to unite the voice of change, when change is deserved. Sidewalks are creative spaces, where people from all walks can make their talents known. They are open canvases of creativity. Sidewalks represent our belief in local, and that local stores will always outcompete large corporations which don't understand the nuance and micro-culture of a local market. We love the name, and all that it stands for. Although we're a pioneer of textbook rentals both online and in-store (the CampusBookRentals.com website is still an important destination for students and reminds us of our connection to them every day), our mission is to deliver significant value to students through meaningful partnerships with college stores, bringing permanent positive change in the process. We have worked extremely hard over the last nearly nine years now, and some folks (like Forbes, Inc. Magazine, The New York Times, and the ...Read More