Better World Books started 10 years ago with a campus book drive and since then has grown to be a $ 63 million company that sells books online collected from about 4,000 libraries as well as campus book drives and
book drop boxes in communities around the U.S. With each book sold, the company donates another, along with a portion of the sale, to one of its nonprofit literacy partners.
Not exact matches
The
drop boxes at the Lancaster Public Library will remain open for
book and other material returns.
Cinderella was re-envisioned as a lavish period piece by director Kenneth Branagh; The Jungle
Book was brought to life by jaw -
dropping visual effects courtesy of director Jon Favreau; Pete's Dragon got a humanistic update via filmmaker David Lowery; and Beauty and the Beast is a mega-hit, grossing over $ 1 billion at the
box office.
According to
Box Office Mojo, the two comic -
book - based films that had biggest second weekend
drop - offs were 2010's «Jonah Hex» and 2003's «Hulk» (both 69.7 percent), although they didn't open nearly as huge as both of this year's Warner Bros..
A great exercise is to
drop your
book title into the Google and Amazon search
boxes and see what comes up.
Just select the
book you want and on the right hand side there is a
drop down
box «select format...».
It is amazing to come across people who set up things like neighborhood
book exchanges,
book clubs, and
drop / pickup
boxes and realize how many
books these voracious readers consume and how few of them ever read an ebook.
I wrote a
book in 2004, collected a bunch of rejection letters from agents to prove that I was a real author, then
dropped it in a
box in the garage for ten years.
Facilitated transportation for clients in the following industries: freight forwarding, outside logistics, alcohol, steel, agricultural, plastic, Israeli glass, thermal technology, bakery goods, forklifts, lumber, automotive parts, bottled water and beverages,
books, chassis, shipping containers, furniture, food, fitness equipment, trailers, construction, fuel pellets, spindles - moving cargo loads via full truckload (FTL), less than truckload (LTL), flatbed, step deck, dry van, refrigerated (reefer) trailers, RGN, double
drop, oversize, overweight, drayage, intermodal / rail, expedited sprinter van / hot shot /
box truck / straight truck
After hosting the drive, on March 24th, students from the Erlanger Medical Assistant program surprised the children and
dropped off a
box of over 50
books.
BetterWorldBooks has a
drop box finder where you can find nearby places to donate
books in good condition, which are then sold online to raise money for non-profit literacy organizations.