BookDefy (www.bookdefy.com) announced today their partnership with Trees for the Future (www.plant-trees.org), BookDefy will donate to plant a tree whenever a textbook is exchanged through www.BookDefy.com or when students compare book buyback and used prices on www.TreesForTextbooks.com.
Textbooks are expensive for students on a limited budget and BookDefy cures this financial crisis by giving students information on the best book prices, best buyback rates and empowers them to privately and safely swap their textbooks with their classmates.
BookDefy gives new life to old textbooks by empowering students to easily, privately and safely swap them. BookDefy works with students and the community and further allows professors to assign older edition; thus giving renewed life to these books that are otherwise destined for the landfill.
BookDefy’s textbook price comparison site, www.TreesForTextbooks.com, does not sell textbooks; it lets students compare buyback and used book prices. Because BookDefy is committed to reducing waste, and to helping students – and the environment, we want to give back, and we will donate to have a tree planted whenever a student buys or sells their books back through our partner sites.
“I started BookDefy because I hated two things about the textbook process for college students,” said Derek Haake, BookDeyf’s founder. “The first is the economic waste created when students resell their books to the bookstores, only for that same book to be resold, at a much higher price to another unsuspecting student. The second is the environmental impact. Books deplete our scarce natural resources, and with our new partner, we can reduce these wastes and give back to the environment.”
About BookDefy:
BookDefy is a free social tool that empowers college students to exchange their textbooks with their classmates and eliminates the middleman – the bookstores - thus keeping money in student’s pockets and giving life to old textbooks. To learn more, visit: http://www.TreesForTextbooks.com.
About Trees for the Future:
Headquartered in Silver Spring, Md. and founded in 1989, Trees for the Future is a 501(c) 3 nonprofit organization helping communities around the world plant trees. Through seed distribution, sustainable management and agroforestry training, and in-country technical assistance, it empowers rural groups worldwide to restore tree cover to their lands, protect the environment and help to preserve traditional livelihoods and cultures for generations. To learn more, visit: http://www.plant-trees.org.
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