Better World Books collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. With more than two million new and used titles in stock, we’re a self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that creates social, economic and environmental value for all our stakeholders.
So, here’s the deal:  they are three friends from college that started selling text books online.  […]

Remember the movie “You’ve got Mail” with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks about the small bookstore owner’s livelihood being threatened by the huge chain moving in across the street? I haven’t thought about that movie in years. This morning, though, I was reminded of not the love story, but the trauma caused to […]

Carroll and Carroll Booksellers is located in Stroudsburg, PA on Main Street. I got to visit last week while I was in the area for the holidays.
The minute the door opened, my sinuses filled, my eyes itched, my lungs felt like they were going to have a difficult time breathing.
My eyes focused on the […]

I’m tellin’ a family “secret”…..My mother gets a million and twelve catalogs during the holidays. We don’t know why (and I’m not sure she knows anymore), but she does. Its not really a family secret…the mailman and the recycling people know too! Of these one million and twelve, there is just one that I get […]