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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!

"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!

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.

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.

Why don't you give books away?

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.

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

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.

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

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.