The Prison Book Program is pleased to be partnered with Better World Books. Founded in the spirit of social entrepreneurship, this organization collects used and surplus books and either sells them online or distributes them to literacy programs around the country and around the world. Better World Books provides an easy way for people and companies to get rid of unwanted books and know that they will end up in the hands of people who need them or provide funding to struggling literacy programs. People buying books online now have a socially conscious alternative!

Better World Books is helping Prison Book in several ways:

• They run book drives to collect books to both sell and distribute to prisoners
• They take books donated directly to us that we cannot use and either sell them online or distribute them to other literacy programs that can use them. In turn, they give us books that other programs cannot use.
• They provide a stable source of income.

The goal of Better World Books is to produce "social capital" in the form of books and funding for non-profits. Although structured as a for-profit company, they return a portion of their profits to their literacy partners including the Prison Book Program. Better World Books has had a tremendously successful relationship with Books for Africa and Room to Read - organizations that distribute books to school libraries in Africa and around the world.

Because of our partnership with Better World Books, we can now accept most book donations and can even arrange pickups of large donations. We still accept smaller donations at our location in Quincy Center during our regular volunteer hours. Because of space limitations, please contact us before bringing more than six cartons of books. For more information contact info@prisonbookprogram.org.

For more information on Better World Books or to purchase a used book to support literacy programs, please visit www.betterworldbooks.com.