Sustainability and compliance

As an innovative and reliable partner in the book industry, we are dedicated to books as a cultural asset and stand for cultural and social diversity, fairness, and integrity. Sustainability, compliance with legal requirements, and corporate responsibility are integral parts of our business practices. 

We uphold and represent these values daily in our interactions with business partners, suppliers, service providers, and customers. We continuously strive to improve our business activities as well as our products, services, and supply chains in line with this philosophy. 

Our compliance and sustainability management system translates our philosophy into action our philosophy through clear structures, preventive measures, guidelines, as well as appropriate tools and initiatives. 

A key component of our climate strategy is Libri Print-on-Demand. With the unique combination of the latest digital printing technology and state-of-the-art book trade logistics, we ensure that millions of German and foreign language book titles are immediately and permanently available to readers internationally – and in a sustainable way. The production and delivery of books on demand effectively avoids overproduction in print runs, energy-intensive storage, and the sealing of surfaces for additional storage, while reducing transport routes and returns from the book trade and online trade. For a sustainable future in the world of books. 

On the path to transforming the book industry, Libri sees itself as a reliable partner for publishers and the book trade. We provide impulses through long-standing training formats such as Libri.Campus and engage within the industry, including in the Sustainability Interest Group of the German Publishers and Booksellers Association. Jörg Paul, site manager of Bad Hersfeld, represents the intermediary book sellers. 

We take our social and societal responsibility very seriously. Particularly in our role as a connector in the bookselling industry, we work with a variety of suppliers and service providers from whom we, like ourselves, expect to act in accordance with applicable local legal requirements and recognized international standards and regulations. This includes, in particular, respect for human rights and environmental standards. 

The Libri Supplier Code of Conduct conveys this commitment to our suppliers and forms the basis for all contractual relationships with them. 

In the policy statement on our human rights strategy, we express our commitment and expectation to uphold these human and environmental rights and describe the procedure by which we ensure this in our own operations and with our suppliers.