Business
Opportunities
Are you also an author? publisher? bookstore
owner? librarian? distributor? a member of a book club? got
a website about books?
It takes two to tango and only a few more
to make a real change out there. Let's start coordinating
and communicating to make a bigger, faster and longer-lasting
impact. Together we can balance out the environmental impacts
of the book publishing industry today.
So come on and let's work together.
For more information and to learn more
about specific collaboration opportunities please continue
reading, and drop us an email at bd@ecolibris.net.
Latest partnerships include:
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Ranicoast
Books
Raincoast
Books is a Canadian publisher and distributor based
in Vancouver, BC. Raincoast Publishing, which includes
the Polestar imprint and key titles from Press Gang
Publishers, produces a wide range of fiction and non-fiction
titles for adults and children. Raincoast Books is also
the Canadaian publisher of the Harry Potter Series.
Raincoast Books is committed to being Ancient Forest
Friendly
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Raincoast Books is celebrating Earth Day 2008 with Eco-Libris
in a special promotion, as part of an ongoing effort to
work towards being a greener publisher. Raincoast will
be offering many of its environemtal titles in Canadian
booksores, and for each of these books Eco-Libris will
be planting a tree. Eco-Libris sticker will be given with
every purchase..
More information on the collaboration can be found here:
http://raincoast.com/green
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Barefoot
Books
Barefoot Books is independent publisher of children's
books, with offices in the United States and in the UK.
Barefoot Books are available in bookstores and through
Barefoot Stallholders, individuals who sell the books
through home parties and community and school events.
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Eco-Libris is collaborating with Barefoot Stallholders
to provide their customers with the opportunity to plant
a tree for every Barefoot book they buy.
More information can be found here: http://www.barefoot-books.com/us/site/pages/849_generic_.php
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BookMooch
BookMooch is an international online community for exchanging
used books, created by John
Buckman. It has more than 500,000 members who exchange
books for free, using a simple points system - every time
you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get
any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch.
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BookMooch members can now earn
points by planting trees with Eco-Libris. For every 10
books they balance out, members will receive a free BookMooch
point they can then use to mooch a book online for free.
How it works: Email
us your BookMooch username after you make a purchase
on Eco-Libris, or enter your BookMooch username in the
comments box during the payment process. We will credit
your BookMooch account accordingly.
More information can be found here: http://blog.bookmooch.com/2008/01/10/plant-a-tree-with-each-book/
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Process
This general trade publishing house is the collaboration
of West Coast publishers Adam Parfrey of Feral
House, and Jodi Wille of Dilettante
Press.
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Process
will now plant a tree with Eco-Libris for every book that
is ordered directly through its website. Each book will
come with a sticker from Eco-Libris to remind the buyer
of the tree planted for that book.
More information on Process can be found on its website:
http://www.processmediainc.com/
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Chegg
Chegg book rentals helps students save hundreds of dollars
on college textbooks each semester.
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Chegg is working
together with students and organizations to help improve
our environment. Renting textbooks is in itself a green
option in that it helps keep books in circulation. In
addition, for every book a student rents, Chegg will plant
a tree in their name, with Eco-Libris.
More information on this collaboration can be here: http://www.chegg.com/EcoFriendly
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Parrot
Press
“Here, There and Everywhere”
is the first parrot-welfare book for children, written
by Mira Tweti, an award-winning animal welfare journalist
and published by Parrot Press.
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Parrot press is offering
buyers on the website to balance out each book bought
by planting a tree with Eco-Libris.
Additionally the Eco-Libris stickers were sold at the
book
launch and reading event on December 16. Other participators
at the event were Actor Adam Arkin, co-star of the new
NBC hit series "Life", actor Beau Bridges,
hip hop artist Mystic, author Mira Tweti and many others.
More information on Parrot Press can be found on its
website:
http://www.parrotpress.org/
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Eco-Libris
at Bookstores!
In these bookstores you can buy a book and balance it
out right there on spot. You will receive a sticker of
Eco-Libris that you can proudly display on the new book,
and of course a new tree will be planted to balance out
the paper used for printing your new book.
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Participating bookstores
include bookstores such as:
- Strand Book Store, New York, NY
- East West Bookstore, Mountain View, CA
- San Francisco State University Bookstore, San Francisco,
CA
and many more...
Click
here to learn more about our bookstores program
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