Better World Books Animated Short

[alwaysclassy62]

"Have you ever been part of a trilogy?  Once. You trashy novel." I love this!

[floresf7]

Well I order some Books 7 months ago and im still have no books!! =-( Order Number: 10988708 call costumer service? Idid be patient they say and =-(

[Appalachianitis]

Dear MrWarderr:

Yes, they are a for-profit company that donates a lot of money and time to literacy causes. Would you prefer that they be a non-profit company? Tell that to the hundreds of people who work there. Non profit companies take care of everyone except for their employees.

Attitudes like yours discourage people from helping others at all. 

What have you done that's so great? Oh, that's right. Pontificate.

[Indocybin]

I have been looking for a book a long time on the net and knew that it was for sale on many web sites, but it was to expensive, around 70$ + huge shipping cost to Sweden.

Today, I found that book on BWB and it was much cheeper than any other place, the shipping cost was just a couple of dollars, included carbon compensated shipping and the money i payed for the books helps improve litteracy in the world. It's definitely the best purchase I have done in a long time.

Great thanks go out to BWB!

[101twilight08]

"You have more issues than National Geographic." Ah, that was a clever one! I'm really glad to have stumbled upon this site, I've been buying all my books on here and will do so from now on. Including my textbooks. Amazing company! Amazing purpose!

[SMKWW]

I'm a BWB customer and I cannot recommend them too highly. The service is excellent, the causes supported are fantastic, prices are brilliant, the products are in excellent condition AND carbon offset shipping.

Honestly, shop with Better World Books. You'll really be pleased that you did.

[BetterWorldBooks]

Better World Books has a popular consignment-based program whereby we sell books on behalf of libraries to raise money for them. Doing this exposes the libraries' inventory to hundreds of millions of people across 20 online marketplaces, maximizing the return to these libraries. Better World Books never throws a book away. If we cannot sell a book, it is either donated or it is recycled and turned into a useful paper product such as the binding for a new book.

[MrWarderr]

Why don't you give books away?

[BetterWorldBooks]

We have, in fact, sent 1.3 million college textbooks to Africa. We do also make regular donations of books to worthy causes here in the U.S.

[MrWarderr]

This practice might actually hurt literacy for the poor in the USA and and the poor's access to quality books.

[MrWarderr]

Better World books, only gives like 5-10% of revenue to non profits that supposedly help fund literacy programs, sounds good right? Now go to your local friends of library and find that all the good books for sale, are gone or have been priced up. It's because betterworldbooks takes the used books fron the friends of the libraries bookstores (for free) and makes a killing off of them. They also take books that people donate to the friends off library and have the ones they can't sell destroyed.

[Kris10MichelleRoss]

@MrWarderr BWB doesn't destroy any books, they donate ALL books they cannot sell to worthy organizations. Check your facts before you make accusations against one of the few companies that is socially responsible from the start.

[LLStar117]

Now i know why i can't find anything good at my "friends of the library".

[BetterWorldBooks]

We contribute a significant portion of our gross margin to global literacy typically 7-10% of our gross margin. This means we pay our literacy partners regardless of whether we are profitable and before we take any profit. We aim to maintain high single-digit social profit and to achieve high single-digit shareholder profit, and we are better than carbon neutral as a company.

[BetterWorldBooks]

To date we have raised over $6.4 million for our literacy partners, diverted over 25 million pounds of books from landfill, and achieved over 7,700 tons of carbon offsets through carbon neutral shipping.

[babarjazzanova]

Better world books are a fraud.

They are pretend to be a non-profit, when they actually are an independently held for profit.

They give a sliver of the NET profit to charity.

[JerTheAraluan]

"I'll probably end up with some freak who reads the last page first anyway!"

lol. GUILTY!

[nightingale801]

hehe smart and funny:) Well done:)

[raquelle08]

betterworld ftw!

[ellieink]

"turn offs?"

"trying to remove my dust jacket on the first read."

"oh, i know, that's so forward!"

haha. i wish my books could talk. :)

[kanwi]

i love betterworld! Yay!!! =D

[clepsydra9]

Soooooo funny!!! You are brilliant.

[Hostile]

That was ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT. Who expects that kind of wit from a low-budget flash ad? Hell, that rocked.

[CarlosPorto]

Awesome!! "pageturner", "probably get lost in shipping" "some freak who reads last page first" "have tou ever been part of a trilogy?"

[cooljam83]

this is cute...love it!