BetterWorldBooks
BetterWorldBooks
"Better World Books uses the power of business to change the world. We collect and sell books online to donate books and fund literacy initiatives worldwide. With more than 8 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."
(BetterWorldBooks website)
What is BetterWorldBooks?
Better World Books is an online for-profit bookseller of used and new books based in the US.
Its current vision consists in collecting and selling books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. It is a self-sustaining, triple-bottom-line company that creates social, economic, and environmental value for all its stakeholders.
The 9 Building Blocks
Osterwalder, Pigneur & Clark (2010) believe a business model can be described through nine basic building blocks that show the logic of how a company intends to make money. The nine blocks cover the four main areas of a business: customers, offer, infrastructure, and financial viability.