Speaker Series: Dustin Holland of Better World Books

Better World Books is a for-profit social enterprise that collects and sells books online to fund literacy initiatives worldwide. With more than eight million new and used titles in stock, Better World Books is a self-sustaining company that balances the social, economic and environmental values of its stakeholders. Since its founding in 2003, the company has raised millions for its nonprofit literacy and library partners; diverted hundreds of thousand tons of books from landfills; achieved tons of carbon offsets through carbon-neutral shipping and created hundreds of full-time jobs with meaningful benefits in multiple locations around the world.

Come hear from Dustin Holland, VP of Global Sales and Marketing for Better World Books, as part of the Spring 2018 Social Enterprise Institute Speaker Series. 

“One man’s trash is another man’s treasure.” This is an idiom that fueled Dustin to launch the Better World Books Library Discards & Donations program in 2004. After talking with more than 100 librarians about the challenges of surplus books, Dustin had an epiphany that has translated into the reuse or recycling of millions of books and generated millions of dollars in contributions to library partners and literacy partners around the world. Beginning in 2015, Dustin moved into his current role as VP of Global Sales and Marketing. He is also known as a “closet environmentalist.”