SNAP and Pet Paradise Book Drives Start Today!!!

WookieBooks Book Drive Goes into Overdrive Second Book Drive Scheduled for January in Houston and San Antonio

SNAP and Wookiebooks are once again working together, this time with the great folks at Pet Paradise, to raise funds for spay-neuter. A second book drive has been scheduled for the last week in January. (Various Pet Paradise and SNAP clinic locations in San Antonio and Houston will participate. See the January 2012 issue of SNAPtales for exact dates and locations at www.snapus.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=7595#FS-8) The October event was a huge success. Thousands of books were collected at the SNAP clinics in Houston and San Antonio, and WookieBooks was on hand to haul them off to their processing center. There the company sorts the books for distribution. Some of the books are sold online (with SNAP receiving 30 percent) while others go to literacy programs, homeless shelters, and community centers. If you’re more in the mood to buy books than to get rid of them, you can shop the WookieBooks online selection at its Amazon store, its Alibris store, or its eBay shop. WookieBooks is a for-profit social enterprise that harnesses the power of e-commerce by collecting and selling used books and media items online to support literacy and animal rescue initiatives, all the while saving hundreds of thousands of these items from the landfill. According to its website, the people at WookieBooks "strongly feel that books and media items possess knowledge that should live on, long after they have lived with you." WookieBooks accepts hardbacks and paperbacks of all genres. They also accept textbooks (preferably no more than five years old and with ISBN numbers); certification study guides; technical, medical, and law texts; pre-recorded VHS tapes (preferably in new condition); and DVDs and CDs (in original cases with all artwork--no burned copies). When it comes to fiction, DVDs, and CDs, they especially like obscure titles! WookieBooks asks that you do not donate damaged (warped or moldy) books, academic journals, literary criticism, encyclopedias, magazines, periodicals, condensed books, activity books, or Harlequin romances.!