Waldenbooks offers a bookfair program. They actually have several different options available for fundraising.
You can have an event at your school and receive 20% of the total sales. They are usually very good about working with you on your book selection.
They also offer coupon bookfairs (sounds similar to the smileybooks deal discussed earlier). You get a coupon, hand it out to your school (teachers, parents, kids) and at the end of the event, you receive a portion of the sales.
Try the family reading program from QSP/Reader's Digest. they collect all of the money and you dont have to shut down the library, ples the kids get magazines every month which will have them reading every month!
I spoke with the sales rep. Parents shop and select your school at checkout. They pay 20% on all sales.
While it's not the same as having the books on site, it's certainly no risk. They claim to have discount prices and offer free shipping on orders over $10.
You can do an Usborne book fair, but will be limited to only Usborne titles. If you're not familiar with them, I'm sure they have a central website. Books are sold in stores and at home parties.
We did not have our usual December book fair this year and opted to do one in the spring instead (with Scholastic). OUr only regret was that we'd lose out on the many holiday sales when we have our fair in December.
We had a small Usborne book fair this week, during parent conferences. This fair was not open to classes, only for the parents. We're getting 50% profit in books to benefit our RIF program. I'm not sure how successful it is (today is the last day) but we figure anything is better than nothing. This was done very last minute- two of our parents are Usborne reps who came in to run it.
We had a lot of problems with Scholastic and the book fair last year and would prefer not to deal with them this year. Does anyone know of any other book fair companies?
