DonateBooks.co - Donate Books

Name

DonateBooks.co - Donate Books

Website

https://donatebooks.co

Company type

Private

Founded year

2011

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

DonateBooks.co (Donate Books) is a Sandy, Utah-based for-profit company, founded 2011, that purports to collect and recirculate used textbooks into communities, though its website is currently a parked GoDaddy page with no observable operations, products, or revenue activity.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Book Donation Services

NAICS

Grantmaking and Giving Services (81321), Libraries and Archives (51921)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Donation, Resale & Disposal Coordination (HSAFAAAK)

akta.pro secondary industries

Donation, Recycling & Junk Sorting for Garages/Basements/Attics (HSAFADAI), Donation Pickup & Reuse Hauling (HSAKALAI)

Keywords

• Book donation services
• Used book recycling
• Textbook redistribution
• Community book collection
• Book reuse programs

Headquarters

HQ city

Sandy

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure

Core offering

DonateBooks.co is a service that collects old books and textbooks from donors and recirculates them back into local communities. The company operates on a community-based redistribution model, channeling used reading material to community members in need. The current donatebooks.co domain is a GoDaddy parked page, indicating no active online operations or transactional functionality.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Community Book Donation and Recirculation Service Service that accepts old books and textbooks from individual donors and recirculates them back into local communities, supporting reuse and community access to reading material. Targeted at individual book donors and community recipients.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• BookScouter: Direct peer that operates as a book price comparison and buyback aggregator, helping sellers route used books to the highest-paying vendor. Operates in the used-book recirculation infrastructure layer.
• Better World Books: Direct peer that collects donated and used books and redistributes/sells them globally, with a built-in social-impact and literacy-funding component. Operates the same donation-to-community recirculation model at much greater scale.
• ThriftBooks: Direct peer that buys back and recirculates used books via an online marketplace. Same book recirculation business model, focused on consumer trade-ins rather than free donation, but directly comparable unit economics.
• Books for Africa: Direct peer nonprofit that collects donated books and ships them to communities across Africa. Operates essentially the same take-old-books-and-recirculate-to-communities model as the subject company.
• First Book: Direct peer nonprofit that distributes free and low-cost books to children in need. Same donation-to-community book redistribution model with a literacy/social impact focus.
• Powell's City of Books: Direct peer used/new bookstore that buys and recirculates large volumes of used books through both retail and online channels. Comparable inventory and recirculation economics.

Broad incumbents

• Goodwill Industries: Broad incumbent nonprofit that accepts book donations as part of a much larger thrift retail operation, offering nationwide drop-off infrastructure for book donors.
• AbeBooks: Broad incumbent (Amazon-owned) that operates a global used book marketplace connecting independent sellers with buyers. Overlaps with the subject's used-book recirculation business but at marketplace scale with a much broader assortment.
• Amazon (Used Books Marketplace): Broad incumbent that operates a large used book marketplace alongside its broader retail business. Indirect competitor with massive scale, fulfillment, and discovery advantages.
• The Salvation Army: Broad incumbent charitable organization that accepts book donations through thrift stores and community programs. Operates large-scale donation drop-off infrastructure that competes for the same donor pool.

Market position

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/donatebooks_co

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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