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Online bookseller Better World Books is a social venture company that capitalizes on the value of the book to fund and support literacy initiatives locally, nationally and around the world.   Better World Books accepts pre-paid book donation shipments from the general public in support of First Book. Saleable donations will be made available for sale on more than 17 online marketplaces and a portion of the proceeds will benefit First Book.  Non-saleable items will be made available to another one of Better World Books' non-profit literacy partners or recycled.

Please send your book donations, postage paid to:

BETTER WORLD BOOKS
Attn: First Book
55740 Currant Road
Mishawaka, IN 46545


Easy to sell (please ship)

  • Hardcover Fiction/Non-Fiction
  • Trade Paperbacks
  • Dictionaries
  • Rare/Collectible Books
  • Unopened Software Sets
  • Textbooks
  • Travel Books
  • Ex-Library Copies
  • Out-of-Print books
  • CDs* and DVDs*

Difficult to sell (please do not ship)

  • Mass-market Paperbacks
  • The Modern Library Series Books
  • Desk Reference Books
  • Tax Documents
  • Periodicals
  • Academic Journals
  • LP Records
  • Directories
  • Telephone Books
  • Book Club Editions
  • Time Life Series Books
  • Magazines
  • Goverment Documents
  • Reader's Digest Condensed
  • Encyclopedia Sets (incomplete or complete)
  • Custom Course Packets
  • Marquis Who’s Who
  • Damaged Books/materials not suitable for sale


Shop www.betterworld.com/firstbook and a portion of the proceeds will
help First Book get more books to kids!


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