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Printful is an on-demand printing and fulfillment company that helps brands scale their businesses without the risks of holding inventory. We fulfill and ship custom clothing, accessories, and home & living items on demand. Each item is made only once it’s ordered and paid for. Our customers range from ecommerce entrepreneurs with hundreds of orders a year to global brands that trust us to fulfill tens of thousands of orders monthly. In November of 2024, Printful merged with production-on-demand powerhouse, Printify, to form one combined company. The two leading platforms remain, but they’re powered by one world-class team dedicated to helping ecommerce businesses around the world find their success.

“Be fair to customers and our employees, promote literacy, be kind to the environment and remain financially viable so we may continue.” — Our Mission Statement in the words of HPB Co-Founder Pat Anderson It was 1972. Corporate dropout Ken Gjemre and fellow bibliophile Pat Anderson opened a used-book shop in an old laundromat in Dallas, Texas. They ran ads in the local paper, declaring “We Buy Books,” and soon found themselves with a few thousand books and hordes of customers. “You could stir them with a stick,” Ken said. And now? With more than 120 stores across the country, plus a website with customers and sellers around the globe, we’ve become America’s largest family-owned retailer for new and used books. Our founders coined the phrase, “We buy and sell everything ever printed or recorded (except yesterday’s newspaper).” And if you’ve been to one of our stores, you know that’s true. Ken and Pat weren’t just talking about our enormous selection, but about our refusal to censor products. As Ken said, “We don’t let others, or ourselves, determine what our customers should read.” To this day, we’ll shelve and sell just about anything, from The Diary of Anne Frank to The History of Farting. We might chuckle at the titles, but we won’t censor them. Half Price Books is committed to the community. We've been supporting literacy and environmental groups for more than 40 years and will continue working together to carry on the mission and causes of our founders. Each day when we go to work, we hope to do two things: share our favorite things with our friends, and help make the world a little better. That includes recycling and donating more than a million of our overstock books each year to local nonprofits and organizations around the world. Learn more about how we give back. Our goal of helping to make the world a little better also touches each and every HPB employee. This employee-centric culture began at inception with the notion of sharing profits with the staff

About Blurb® Blurb is a bookmaking platform and creative community specializing in photo books and the tools to self-publish them. We empower everyone—from creative professionals showcasing their work to small businesses seeking large volume printing—to create, publish, and sell high-quality photo books, trade books, and magazines. With free book creation and layout tools—including our desktop publishing tool BookWright, a plugin for Adobe InDesign, and a PDF Uploader —Blurb simplifies publishing for everyone. Founded in 2005, Blurb has more than 2 million customers worldwide, with over 4 million unique book titles, and nearly 18 million units shipped to almost 100 countries around the world. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and can be found online at www.blurb.com.