A Million Dollar Business From Unwanted Books
Last weekend on the Bloomberg Television program Venture host Cris Valerio spoke to the co-founder of Better World Books Xavier Helgesen.
Xavier talked about building the company that he founded in 2002 that has grown to become one of the world’s largest online used bookstores. The company’s HQ is in Atlanta, but the heart of the operation is in Mishawaka, Indiana, where the warehouse is located. They receive shipments of 200,000 books every week, and have an estimated 2M titles at any given moment.
RedHotFranchises on June 17th, 2009 7:51 pm
He used a very nice gimmick, Buy used books to fund literacy worldwide. This should greatly improve the literacy rates worldwide. Language will continue evolving simply for the reason the human population always changes
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