With Independent Bookstore Day 2024 just over two weeks away, here is another look at what indies around the country have planned for the annual celebration of bookselling.
Libro.fm's golden ticket promotion is returning this year. 500 tickets will be hidden for customers to find at participating partner bookstores, with each ticket good for 12 free audiobooks from Libro.fm. At the same time, a plethora of bestselling audiobooks will be available for $5 or less from April 22 until April 28.
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Beginning on April 20, indie booksellers in Brooklyn, N.Y., are teaming up for the Brooklyn Bookstore Crawl. Passports are available at any of the 25 participating bookstores, and gathering at least five stamps earns customers a 25%-off coupon good at all participating stores. There will be a Bookstore Crawl Afterparty at 5 p.m. on April 27 at Brooklyn's Center for Fiction, featuring festivities and an additional prize raffle.
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The inaugural Houston Independent Bookstore Crawl kicked off on April 5, with 18 indies throughout the Houston, Tex., area participating. Customers can pick up a passport at any participating store, and once they collect 10 stamps they can submit their passport for entry into a prize raffle. Every stamp collected after the first 10 will earn an additional entry in the raffle. A map of participating bookstores can be found here.
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For the second year running, bookstores across the state of Utah are partnering for the Fellowship of the Indie Bookstores map and scavenger hunt. Readers can collect maps on IBD and have one year to visit all 30 participating stores. Those who acquire all 30 stamps will receive a bundle of gift cards from each store.
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In southeastern Virginia, 15 indie bookstores are teaming up for the Hampton Roads Bookstore Crawl. Beginning April 19, customers will have a little over a week to visit as many participating bookstores as they can around Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Newport News, Chesapeake, and other parts of the Hampton Roads region. Customers who complete their passport will be entered to win a prize raffle that will be drawn the week after Independent Bookstore Day.
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Five indie bookstores in Little Rock and North Little Rock, Ark., are joining forces for the Rock City Book Crawl. Readers are invited to grab a passport at a participating store and visit as many of the others as they can before the end of the day. The participating stores are: Beautywood Books, the Book Store, Paper Hearts Bookstore, Pyramid Art, Books, & Custom Framing, and WordsWorth Books.
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At the King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, Utah, IBD festivities will include four storytime sessions beginning at 11 a.m. and running until 12:30 p.m., followed by appearances by local authors Emily Cox & Nicole Allen (The Other Side of Together) and Mariclaire Norton (The Book of Tara). There will also be a pop-up appearance by Rita's Traveling Bookstore, a new bookstore coming to Midway, Utah.
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In St. Petersburg, Fla., Tombolo Books will begin the celebration with a storytime session with Natalia Sylvester, author of A Maleta Full of Treasures. In the afternoon, the Sparks Collaborative Ensemble will perform an interactive storytime of When the Tuba Shows Up, It's a Party, written by Sheila Cowley and illustrated by Creative Clay. There will be a children's and teen book sale throughout the day, as well as a gelato pop-up in the store's courtyard.