{"id":2275,"date":"2008-03-27T13:17:34","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.librarysupportstaff.org\/?p=528"},"modified":"2008-03-27T13:17:34","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T18:17:34","slug":"better-world-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/better-world-books.html","title":{"rendered":"Better World Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.betterworldbooks.com\/\">Better World Books<\/a><\/strong> is a for-profit organization that, among other activities, will take a library&#8217;s discarded books and either donate them to literacy projects worldwide, or sell them via used book retailers such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/help\/customer\/display.html?nodeId=1161238\">Amazon Marketplace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A portion of the funds raised go back to the library that discarded the books, a portion go towards literacy projects, and a portion goes to Better World Books (which is a for-profit organization, after all).<\/p>\n<p>Among the other benefits, they stress that they offer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.csrwire.com\/News\/11429.html\">carbon-neutral shipping<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, it sounds like a way to maximize the good your discards can do you, and raise some funds at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>thanks to Belen for the heads-up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Better World Books is a for-profit organization that, among other activities, will take a library&#8217;s discarded books and either donate them to literacy projects worldwide, or sell them via used book retailers such as Amazon Marketplace. A portion of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/27\/better-world-books.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2921,2943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-libraries"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-AH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}