Book donations

Our partnerships with publishers and other branches of the book trade are crucial to our work. Donations of brand-new book returns and overstocks enable us to provide top-quality, up-to-date material to our overseas partners. All the books we send overseas each year are donated by the UK book trade.  We also rely on financial donations from companies in order to send these books to our partners.  If your company is able to support our work please visit our corporate donations area.

Book Aid International offers publishers a satisfying alternative to the dilemma of pulping perfectly good books which are so valuable, especially to readers in areas of the world where books are really scarce. Through us, publishers can redirect their overstocks and returns and make a contribution to the provision of educational opportunities for some of the most disadvantaged people of the world.

Book donors in profile

Our book donor profile page tells you more about the specific support we receive. Our current featured book donor is CGP.

Other recent major book donors include:

A & C Black

Hachette Livre UK

Reed Elsevier

Andersen Press

Igloo Books

Rising Stars

Cambridge University Press

John Wiley & Sons

The Pearson Group

Earthscan

Macmillan

Sage Publications

Egmont UK

Nelson Thornes

Travelling Books

Frances Lincoln

Oxford University Press

Walker Books

Click here to download more information about how publishers work with us and the specifics on donating books directly from your warehouse.

We would like to hear from any publishers or booksellers with brand-new books, large or small, who are interested in working with us to help provide books for the developing world. Please contact Louise Miller on 020 7733 3577 or by email.