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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:

kedzie press

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


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

barefoot books 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.

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


bookmooch logo 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.

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/


process publishing house logo Process
This general trade publishing house is the collaboration of West Coast publishers Adam Parfrey of Feral House, and Jodi Wille of Dilettante Press.

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/


Chegg
Chegg book rentals helps students save hundreds of dollars on college textbooks each semester.
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

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.

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/


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.

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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