News & Press

Here you can find out so much about Better World Books and how we're making strides in our fight for literacy worldwide. Read from press releases, news articles and even blog entries about how we're creating change.

Spring 2006 Book Drive Scholarship Winners!

Better World Books is proud to announce the six winners of our Spring 2006 scholarship awards. Check them out on our blog.

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Campus book drives have local, global impact

If you spend any amount of time at Notre Dame, you’ve probably seen drop boxes for used books. They’re everywhere—in residence halls, classroom and administration buildings, the Main Building, the library—wherever books are used, they also can be discarded. What you may not know is just how many people are benefiting from these seemingly small acts of charity, or recycling.

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Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts

Better World Books and the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL) have teamed up to help meet the educational needs of families displaced by Hurricane Katrina, especially those in some of the most devastated areas of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.

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Universal Literacy with Room to Read

Another great article on Room to Read and the impact they are making on world literacy.

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FastCompany's Social Capitalist Awards 2005

Room to Read is named as one of the top 20 groups that are changing the world!

www.fastcompany.com/socia...

Prison Book Program partners with Better World Books

This article on the Prison Book Program website, disucsses our partnership.

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Donate textbooks for a good cause

Oklahoma State University runs a book drive.

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KSU sends books to Africa

Kennesaw Stat University teams up with Better World Books!

www.ksusentinel.com/media...

Better World Books Launches Virtual Book Drive for Sri Lankan Tsunami Victims

Press release about our Tsunami virtual book drive.

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Truman State University buyback article

Students collect book to benefit literacy in Africa.

www.trumanindex.com/media...

Circle K Magazine helps the African book famine

Circle K at Texas A&M makes their move.

www.circlek.org/circlek/m...

NACS Article

The National Association of College Stores (NACS) posts an article that mentions Better World Books.

www.nacs.org/news/112604-...

UNC Wilimington benefting Books For Africa

UNC decides to help end the book famine in Africa.

www.theseahawk.com/media/...