A community or corporate book drive allows volunteers or employees to donate their gently used books to raise money for a wonderful cause—literacy. Our Program is easy to implement, costs nothing, adaptable to any size community or workforce, and driven by results.

Help generate funding for a non-profit literacy initiative—start collecting books today!

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Our literacy partners are credible, well-established, non-profit organizations with proven operating backgrounds. Our four main partners are Books For Africa (www.booksforafrica.org), Room To Read (www.roomtoread.org), the National Center for Family Literacy (www.famlit.org), and the World Education & Development Fund (www.worldfund.org). Aside from truckloads of books, we have donated/pledged more than $1.3 million to our non-profit literacy partners.

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If your organization does not have a charitable, literacy-oriented Foundation or does not have a working relationship with a local, regional or national non-profit literacy organization, your organization may designate one of our major literacy partners to be the beneficiary of the Community or Corporate Book Drive.

We donate 30% of net sales to your organization’s designated non-profit literacy partner. Net sales are defined as the sale price of the book minus any marketplace commissions. For example, a book sold on Amazon.com for $100.00 would have a net sale price of $85.00 (after Amazon.com’s 15% marketplace commission). Payments are made to your organization’s designated non-profit literacy partner every calendar quarter.

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Since you know how to motivate your volunteers or employees better than we do, we ask that you make a concerted effort to promote the drive. This includes designing/printing marketing materials to promote the drive. Aside from that, a successful drive requires minimal effort from a combination of staff and/or volunteers. At the conclusion of the drive, volunteers pack-up the materials collected for shipment to Better World Books—and of course, we pay for the shipping!

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Better World Books makes it easy and convenient to run a Community or Corporate Book Drive. At no cost, we provide collection boxes, shipping cartons, tape and access to a UPS web portal where UPS labels can be generated to ship the materials to our warehouse.

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We accept books that are in merchantable condition (i.e. no water damage, mildew/mold, missing pages, spine damage, etc.).  These include Hardcover Fiction/Non-Fiction, Dictionaries, Unopened Software Sets, Textbooks (2000 or newer), Ex-Library Copies, CDs, DVDs and VHS Cassettes (must be operable and include casing with artwork, Trade Paperbacks, Rare/Collectible books, Travel Books (2003 or newer), and Out-of-Print books.

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Mass-market paperbacks, Tax documents, LP Records, Book Club Editions, Government documents, Custom Course Packets, The Modern Library Series books, Periodicals, Directories, Time Life Series Books, Magazines, Marquis Who’s Who, Desk Reference books, Academic Journals, Telephone books, Reader's Digest Condensed, Encyclopedia sets (incomplete or complete), and/or any Damaged books/materials not suitable for sale.

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Simply send an e-mail with your contact information, including phone number, to Bookdrive@betterworldbooks.com. Thank you for your interest in Better World Books!

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