Kodak and Bonacia team up to deliver Print For Good

A book for one – Print for Good aims to get books into the hands of those who can’t afford them

Aiming to tackle literacy blackspots, Peterborough-based Bonacia and Kodak are producing a book to give to young people to encourage their reading skills.

Called Story Seekers, the book was written and designed by Bonacia’s Young Writers arm that publishes books by young people and is being printed at the parent company’s site on its Kodak Nexpress digital presses. As part of its worldwide Print For good campaign, Kodak is providing financial and distribution support to enable books to be sent to schools in Watford and Peterborough in the UK and in Kodak’s home town of Rochester, New York.

Print for Good is an initiative aimed at promoting literacy in which Kodak, its customers and other industry partners provide books, school materials and supplies in high-need areas around the world. An initial shipment of some 300 copies of Story Seekers, printed and bound by Bonacia in the UK, will be delivered to schools in Rochester, New York, in mid-December. 

Bonacia is no stranger to helping produce and sell books for good causes. SuperSid’s Scrapbook was created in the late summer of 2018 to raise funds for a Year 2 pupil at Redcourt St Anselm’s primary school in Merseyside to fund medical treatment in the US for a rare type of brain cancer. The book contains stories and drawings created by Sid’s classmates and profits from the sale copies go to Sid’s family. Print for Good has funded a further 125 copies and Bonacia has just added a page to the Young Writers website to allow copies to be ordered directly.

Another charity-supporting project is I Am Braver Than, a book written by then 17-year-old Vienna Randall as part of a school project. The book, which is the first under the Young Writers imprint to feature the work of a single writer, was published by Bonacia sister brand Spiderwize, and deals with overcoming fears. A share of Ms Randall’s royalties are given to the Young Minds charity which focuses on mental health issues in young people.