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Creating websites and applications to allow potential users to donate their books either by sending them via postal service (donators can thus be regional or even international) or putting the books in donation points[1].

Libraries : Italy has lot of ancient libraries and big ones (cf. annex 2 for the list). For instance, The National Central Library is the largest in Italy and one of the most important in Europe (with more than 5,5 million books, 120,000 magazines, 29,000 16th century editions and 24,988 manuscripts), which is one of the two central libraries of Italy, alongside with the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale of Rome. There is also The Marie Curie Library that provides high quality books.

Universities: There are 89 universities in Italy with more than 1.8 million students (Sedghi & Allen , 2012).

Schools : about 42 000 schools, is situated in almost all Italian towns. There are correspondingly more than 9 million school students across Italy.

Churches: In Rome alone, there are more than 900 churches. Hence thousands in Italy (26,000 according to WikiAnswers community). As we know, churches have vast book collection and contacts that can help BWB either to get books or to distribute them.

Italian national commission for UNESCO: It is a non-profit organization that operates in the field of education, science, culture, information and communication

UCSC Student Associations: These are a group of student associations that has a big network in Italy

[1] We can create donation points all over Italy or use existing ones.

Italian publishers: Gruppo Mondadori, RCS Group, Gruppo GEMS, Gruppo Giunti and Feltrinelli are the top 5 Italian publishers. Conjointly, they have more than 60% of the book market share. Publishersglobal (s.d.) provides the majority of Italian publishers by category of books and by region.