Instead of selling back their textbooks, students now have another option when emptying their book bags this semester.
The Harvest of Hope Foundation, a national nonprofit that provides financial aid to migrant farm workers, is partnering with Orange and Blue Textbooks to collect used books to sell on Amazon.
Half of the proceeds from the sales will go to the foundation, which provides educational and emergency assistance to migrant workers and their families, and the other half will go to the textbook store.
Students can drop textbooks that are in good condition into any of the 20 marked white bins that will be dispersed at locations around town, including Gainesville Place apartments, Canopy apartments, the OBT store on Northwest 13th Street and the Institute of Hispanic-Latino Cultures on University Avenue.
OBT has set up an Amazon account under the Harvest of Hope name to sell and ship the textbooks.
There is no planned end date for the book drive.
