Better World Books is a for-profit socially conscious business and a global online bookseller that collects and sells new and used books online matching each purchase with a book donation, Book-for-Book™. Each sale generates funds for literacy and education initiatives in the UK, US, and around the world. Since its launch in 2003, Better World Books has raised close to $29 million for libraries and literacy, donated almost 27 million books and reused or recycled more than 326 million books.
Location: United States, Indiana, Mishawaka
Employees: 201-500
Phone: +1 574-999-1100
Founded date: 2002
Investors 1
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 07.04.2023 | 9 alternatives to Book Depository that ship to Singapore | For bookworms around the world, Apr 4 will go down in bibliophile history as a sad, sad day. Since Book Depository announced its impending closure on Apr 26, fans have been frantically carting out, porting their wish lists elsewhere, and gr... |
| 29.05.2020 | Find The Best Talent And More: 4 Concrete Benefits To Your Business Of Being Accountable To Stakeholders | Getty |
| 09.12.2017 | 17 Gifts That Give Back To Help Make Sense Of This Year | I’m just going to be honest here. I’m at a point where I feel like no amount of activism or hope or logic will reverse the trajectory of America’s free-fall into the sinkhole of discord, evil, anachronism and general WTFness. I can make cal... |
| 04.07.2016 | Impact Iceland 2016 seeks to make Iceland the next social entrepreneurship hub | Impact Iceland 2016 is crowdfunding Iceland’s first conference on social entrepreneurship on Karolina Fund. It will be the first in a series of conferences in Iceland focusing on social innovation as a profitable, sustainable, and impactful... |
| 09.02.2016 | This Oxford B-School Solar Startup Is Lighting Up East Africa | Xavier Helgesen had dealt with more than a few unexpected twists since moving to Tanzania after graduating from Oxford University’s Saïd Business School in 2011. But one in particular left him stumped. The villagers using his company’s sola... |
| 18.07.2010 | The Many Bottom Lines Of Businesses | This post was written by guest contributor Leila Janah, the CEO of the nonprofit outsourced services firm Samasource. Leila continues to argue with me over whether or not pure capitalism can solve what ails us. I tend to take a Randian view... |
| 30.10.2008 | Will “social capital” be the next big industry to emerge? | It’s new enough that there’s not even a commonly accepted term for it. Some call it “social capital” or “social entrepreneurism”, others “blended value”, and some choose the Starbucksian name “double-triple bottom line.” You might just call... |
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