Crowdfunding for books

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Presentation of Fondation Decitre at My French Library, IFLA 2014.

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Our identity : a century-old french bookstore group since 1907, located in the Rhône-Alpes region.

>>Decitre : 8 bookstores

>>Decitrepro : delivering books to all professionals

>>Decitre.fr : the first French bookstore online

>>Decitre Foundation : develop activities to promote reading

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Decitre Foundation

Decitre Foundation was founded in 2011 to develop activities to promote reading all over the world.

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Decitre Foundation

Decitre Foundation support different organizations :, Restos du coeur, French Red Cross, Mérieux Foundation, « Sport dans la ville », « Lire et faire lire », Karuna Shechen, Libraries without borders.

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Context

Crowdfunding, as its name suggests, is a funding method where common people, henceforth the crowd, fund personal or organizations project with their own money.

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What we do ?

"Crowdfunding for books" = connections between libraries projects associations and donors passionate about reading.

With crowdfunding for books, Decitre Foundation provides access to books for all kinds of people such as : prisoners, children, homeless people, etc.

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How it works

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