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We can’t thank you enough!

Dana — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:31:05 +0000

It is because of you — all of you — our amazing customers, book drive organizers, librarians, fans and friends that we were voted THE MOST PROMISING SOCIAL ENTREPRENEUR by Business Week.

We are so proud of what your support has been able to do for our Non-Profit partners. So far we have:

Raised over $6 million for Literacy
$3.5 million for over 80 literacy and education nonprofits

$2.5 million for libraries and thrift stores nationwide
Contributed more than $1.3 million to college service clubs who have run book drives
Directly sent more than 1.3 million books to Books for Africa, the National Center for Family Literacy, and Feed the Children
Collected over 20 million books through active book drives at over 1,800 colleges and universities and collections from over 1,500 libraries

With your help, Books for Africa, Invisible Children, Worldfund, Room to Read and the National Center for Family Literacy are doing amazing things to increase literacy around the world!

Thanks! And please keep spreading the word!

Earth Day at BWB: Save 20% on Used Books

Dana — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:51:39 +0000

Happy Earth Day!

Are you still wondering what you can do to celebrate Earth Day?

Well for starters, you can buy used books at www.BetterWorldBooks.com AND save 20%! Just use the coupon code EARTHDAY09 at checkout. And on Earth Day, we’re doubling all carbon offsets! In addition to being a great deal, by shopping Better World Books our customers have (as of today):

diverted 24.4 million pounds of books from landfills

saved 284,500 trees from being cut down

saved 12.2 million pounds of carbon dioxide from being released into the atmosphere

and saved 58 million Kwh of electricity from being used

Need some good green reading? Check out the great deal on Daniel Goleman’s new book: ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE and learn how knowing the hidden impact of what you buy can change everything.

Need more? Check out all of our Earth Day recommendations from green books and podcasts to our Earth Day Reader’s checklist and more!

You can also help by voting for Better World Books for the Business Week Social Entrepreneurship Award!

Cover Exposure

admin — Mon, 31 Dec 2007 16:48:56 +0000

Check out who’s on the cover of this month’s Business Week “Small Biz” magazine:

That’s right, it’s Better World Books’ own, co-founder Xavier Helgesen! Xavier, on top of a throne of Reader’s Digest books that resides in our “Fortress of Solitude” (ok, it’s just the warehouse) is the image of the hot new topic:

Strategies: Mission Possible
Making money while doing good isn’t easy, but more companies are proving it can be done. Here are some successful strategies. (article by Anne Field)

Pick up the issue at newsstands (or wherever you pickup up your glossies) and read about it. If print journalism doesn’t float your boat you could always root around for it online at their website.