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Holiday Helper Added to Independent Bookstore Reader’s Challenge

November 4, 2009 in bookstore, Challenge, giveaway, holiday by Kim | 6 comments

Claire and I launched the Independent Bookstore Reader’s Challenge earlier this year to encourage people to seek out and visit new bookstores.  Robin, from A Fondess for Reading, satisfied the scout category by visiting Murder by the Book in Portland, Oregon, and  Snow Goose Bookstore in Stanwood, WA.  Allison Staton, from Soccer Mom in Denial, is also a scout after visiting Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC, and The Blue Bunny Bookstore in Dedham, MA.  We’ve had several other people sign up and we’re looking forward to hearing from them.  It’s not too late to enter the competition  – just visit at least two new bookstores before the end of year and tell us about it (in a post, or an e-mail or a comment on the Challenge post).   What a great activity while traveling for the holidays!  Everyone who satisfies the Challenge will be entered in a drawing for a $20 ABA Gift card.  Click here to enter.

In honor of the upcoming gift giving season, we’re adding a new category, “Holiday Helper.”  Buy two books at an independent bookstore, scan the receipt and send it via e-mail to Claire (claire@bookstorepeople.com) or me (kim@bookstorepeole.com) and we’ll enter you in a drawing for a second $20 ABA Gift card.  Not sure what books to buy?  No worries, we’ll be starting our Best Gifts for Readers lists next week.  We’re gathering lists of travel literature, fiction, YA, children’s, independent publishers and more.

We’re looking forward to hearing from you!

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We’re Giving Away What EVERY Reader and Book Blogger Needs!

September 14, 2009 in bookstore, giveaway by Kim | 19 comments

BBAW_Celebrate_BooksThis week is Book Blogger Appreciation Week (BBAW), an annual extravaganza sponsored by Amy Riley of My Friend Amywith the help of many kind elves.  For the last several weeks, BBAW accepted nominations for the “best” of several types of bloggers.  Voting occurred last week on the finalists and the winners will be revealed this week.  Today the real fun begins.  Check out the BBAW website for scavenger hunts that race across the blogosphere, all culminating in a prize for some and a chance to look at book blogs for everyone.  Articles are posted daily, today there is one from the editor of small press about book bloggers, another from a blogger about reviewing classics, and a third from an author grateful for the impact of book blogs.  Moreover, dozens and dozens of book bloggers are giving away prizes in honor of BBAW and Amy’s efforts. 

ABAGiftCard-largeWhile we’re not officially book bloggers, our mission is to highlight independent bookstores, we talk about books a lot.  Plus, Claire and I don’t want to miss out on the fun.  Our prize fits both our goal and the secret wish of every reader and book blogger:  free money for books.  We’ll give a $20 ABA gift card to the winner of our drawing.  We’ll be purchasing the gift card from Skylight Books in Los Angeles, but it can be used in hundreds of independent stores across the nation.  For those of you without an independent bookstore (consider opening one up!), the gift card can be used at many stores online.  Skylight Books assured me that the winner could order a book from them and they would ship it.

How to enter?  One entry for leaving the name on an independent bookstsore you love and a second entry for twittering about this giveaway (put @bookstoreK in the twitter so I can find it and/or leave a comment below about the twitter if I won’t know you by your twitter name).  Leave your e-mail and the winner will be picked mid-day on September 19th with random.org.

Good luck!

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