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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Simon
& Schuster Children's Publishing
Simon
& Schuster Children’s Publishing, one
of the leading children’s book publishers in the
world, is comprised of the following imprints: Aladdin,
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, Libros para niños,
Little Simon®, Little Simon Inspirations™,
Margaret K. McElderry Books, Simon & Schuster Books
for Young Readers, Simon Pulse, Simon Scribbles, and
Simon Spotlight®. While maintaining an extensive
award-winning backlist, the division continues to publish
acclaimed and bestselling books for children of all
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In a celebration of their new line of eco-friendly children’s
books, Little
Green Books, Simon & Schuster Children’s
Publishing has partnered with Eco-Libris in an educational
contest -
I CAN SAVE THE EARTH!, which provides children an
opportunity to share their personal green stories and
ideas.
More information on the collaboration can be found here:
http://www.ecolibris.net/littlegreenbooks.asp
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Ranicoast
Books
Raincoast
Books is a leading Canadian book company based in
Vancouver, BC. It is best known in green circles as the
Canadian publisher of the green editions of the latest
Harry Potter books. Raincoast books has several distinct
but complimentary divisions: Raincoast Distribution which
provides full-service Canadian representation to a wide
range of publishers from the US, the UK and Canada, a
wholesale division (BookExpress) and Publishers Group
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Raincoast Books is celebrating Earth Day this year for
the second time with Eco-Libris in a special promotion,
as part of an ongoing effort to work towards being a greener
company. 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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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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Flux
Flux is a Norwegian publisher that publishes non-fiction
with focus on wholeness and dialogue and the quarterly
Flux Magazine with a different basic theme for each issue.
Flux seeks to shed light on fundemental questions through
dialogue, fruitful interchange between logic and intuition
and crossfertilisation of subjects and fields.
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In collaboration
with Eco-Libris, Flux will plant trees for various publications,
including 'Dyp
glede - Med Arne Næss inn i dypøkologien'
(Deep Joy: Arne Næss on deep ecology), 'Den
integrale visjonen' (the Norwegian translation of
Ken Wilber’s Integral Vision) and 'Rudolf
Steiner - Liv og tanker' (a biography of Rudolf Steiner).
More information on Flux can be found on their website:
http:///www.flux.no
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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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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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In celebration of Earth
Day 2009, Barefoot Books are working together with Eco-Libris
this April to plant a tree for every copy sold of their
new book 'Earth
Tales'.
Eco-Libris is also 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/eco-libris.php
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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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