Imagine a press where they give you the book for “free”—-if you donate to a charity. It might be a nice change this Giftmas from giving your granola-y aunt and uncle a charity goat. I mean, how many self-righteous, guilt-reducing goats-for-others can one affluent, self-hating first world couple get-give?

In the beginning, there was a book: “Give and Take” by Massachusetts-based author Stona Fitch. “Give and Take” was orphaned at a publishing house when its editor departed, and it didn’t find a new home. Fitch just wasn’t sure what to do with it. So he decided to give it away.

But there’s a catch: He gives you the book for free and asks that you give money to charity.

Fitch has founded the nonprofit publishing house Concord Free Press which operates on this unusual Robin Hood-style publishing model. The press gives away its books, and its readers give away money. Readers, who get the books by requesting them from the website or at bookstores (now, mostly, in New England), are asked to note their donations on the company’s website; using its GivingTracker, they can log in the exact numbered edition of their book, how much they gave and to whom.