Shop “Indie” New Orleans Bookstores On Independent Bookstore Day

NEW ORLEANS – Following the runaway success of last year’s California Bookstore Day, bookstores across the country are now preparing for Independent Bookstore Day (IBD), a nationwide celebration of books and independent bookstores.

         While IBD is being celebrated on Saturday, May 2, 2015, in most locales, it is being celebrated in New Orleans on Saturday, May 9, 2015, so as not to conflict with the Jazz Festival, where independent bookstores are working together to operate the Book Tent.

         Activities in New Orleans on Saturday, May 9, will take place at three independent stores across the city: Garden District Book Shop, Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop and Octavia Books. 

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         Each store is planning special activities, and together they are offering the chance to win $75 in gift certificates to book lovers who visit all three participating bookstores as part of a fun scavenger hunt. Each store will be selling exclusive literary-themed books, art and gift items created just for IBD.

         The three stores have also joined together to give away a limited number of Blackbird Letter Press New Orleans City Notebooks (printed in Louisiana) to customers who purchase a limited edition IBD book or item or who spend $25 or more on Sunday, May 9. 

         The first National Independent Bookstore Day is sponsored in part by Penguin Random House and The American Booksellers Association. “It's a privilege for Penguin Random House to be the first publisher sponsor of Independent Bookstore Day, and we are excited about supporting it in a variety of ways, including author appearances and specially created merchandise that celebrates the event,” said Jaci Updike, President, Sales of Penguin Random House U.S. “California Bookstore Day was a tremendous success for our booksellers, their customers, and for us last year, and we’re looking forward to working with booksellers all across the country to grow this terrific event in their communities—it’s a fantastic and festive way to bring new readers into bookstores, and to strengthen relationships with existing customers.”

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         “The entire purpose of Bookstore Day is to celebrate our collective success and thank our customers and the community of readers,” says IBD Program Director, Samantha Schoech. “For so long, the message about indie bookstores was all doom and gloom, but the truth is, there are more indie bookstores this year than last, and more last year than the year before that. Independent bookstores are actually opening around the country. We want people to know that.”

         Independent Bookstore Day (IBD) is produced by the Northern California Independent Bookstore Association in partnership with the American Booksellers Association. Pete Mulvihill, co-owner of Green Apple Books in San Francisco, spearheaded the launch of the event after noting the success of Record Store Day. Independent Bookstore Day is produced by writer and former bookseller Samantha Schoech.

         You can follow IBD on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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         In New Orleans:

         Octavia Books                                  

         Garden District Book Shop                

         Tubby & Coo’s Mid-City Book Shop  

 

 

 

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