About 20 million trees are cut down annually for paper used in the production of books sold in the United States alone. To help alleviate the problem, the company works with organizations that plant trees in developing countries in Latin America and Africa, many of which suffer from deforestation.

Customers can visit the website and decide how many books they would like to balance out. Then they pay about a dollar per book online and Eco-Libris sends them a sticker made of recycled paper for each book they balanced out.

Until the book publishing industry chooses to use more recycled paper, or we choose to consume less and visit the library more often, this seems like a pretty good deal.