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From: LAURIE DRAUS <DRAUS>
Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:14:08 -0600
I've been picking up some out of print books on Amazon and a fairly high percentage of books there are being sold by BWB. No complaints about their efficient deliveries and books arriving in the condition described.
Lauri Cahoon-Draus K-12 Library Media Specialist Suring School Libraries draus at suring.k12.wi.us
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.
>>> "Cammie L. Backus" <clbackus at rif.org> 01/05/06 8:40 AM >>>
*Please note that I'm expressing these opinions as an individual, rather than as a representative of RIF.
It looks like NCFL has a press release on BWB on their site: http://www.famlit.org/AboutNCFL/PressRoom/CurrentPressReleases/NCFL-and-Better-World-Books.cfm
>From doing some Googling, it looks like the organization was known as Campus Community Outreach up until 2004. Info from Room to Read: http://www.roomtoread.org/pdfs/rtr_cco_partnership.pdf
Books for Africa states in an online newsletter that BWB provided $40K in unrestricted donations to them in 2004.
I'm surprised that their name didn't get flagged as being too similar to Books for a Better World, which is a non-profit. It definitely looks like an interesting program; I wonder if one can request an annual report from them to see their real numbers.
Cammie
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Ruth I. Gordon Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:15 PM To: CCBC Net; Penny Peck; ALSC List Subject: [CCBC-Net] ???Better World...
Does anyone know anything about this organization other than the info included in the releases?
Here are information sites for Better World Books. library at betterworldbooks.com and www.betterworldbooks.com
Big Grandma
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Date: Thu, 05 Jan 2006 10:14:08 -0600
I've been picking up some out of print books on Amazon and a fairly high percentage of books there are being sold by BWB. No complaints about their efficient deliveries and books arriving in the condition described.
Lauri Cahoon-Draus K-12 Library Media Specialist Suring School Libraries draus at suring.k12.wi.us
"It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data. Insensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." Sherlock Holmes - A Scandal in Bohemia.
>>> "Cammie L. Backus" <clbackus at rif.org> 01/05/06 8:40 AM >>>
*Please note that I'm expressing these opinions as an individual, rather than as a representative of RIF.
It looks like NCFL has a press release on BWB on their site: http://www.famlit.org/AboutNCFL/PressRoom/CurrentPressReleases/NCFL-and-Better-World-Books.cfm
>From doing some Googling, it looks like the organization was known as Campus Community Outreach up until 2004. Info from Room to Read: http://www.roomtoread.org/pdfs/rtr_cco_partnership.pdf
Books for Africa states in an online newsletter that BWB provided $40K in unrestricted donations to them in 2004.
I'm surprised that their name didn't get flagged as being too similar to Books for a Better World, which is a non-profit. It definitely looks like an interesting program; I wonder if one can request an annual report from them to see their real numbers.
Cammie
-----Original Message----- From: ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu [mailto:ccbc-net-bounces at ccbc.education.wisc.edu] On Behalf Of Ruth I. Gordon Sent: Wednesday, January 04, 2006 8:15 PM To: CCBC Net; Penny Peck; ALSC List Subject: [CCBC-Net] ???Better World...
Does anyone know anything about this organization other than the info included in the releases?
Here are information sites for Better World Books. library at betterworldbooks.com and www.betterworldbooks.com
Big Grandma
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