If you are on Facebook, please become a member of the group Challenge: Keep Independent Bookstores Around the World Thriving.
This group was started by our own Patty Scott Miller (Media Marketing Coordinator) to help raise the visibility of independent bookstores on book- & social-networking sites like Shelfari and Goodreads. By default, the purchase links for books on these sites takes you to amazon, but if individual site users go in and change their links, they can link to sites such as indiebound.org, or their local independent bookstore. (Like the Tattered Cover.) You can even request, via the internet, a book be ready for you to pick up, thus saving you money on shipping and time looking for the book. While you're in your local bookstore, you may find staff recommendations of books you haven't heard of yet, or smell a toasting everything bagel and realize you're hungry, and stop for a coffee, as well, and suddenly, your day just got so much better!
As of this posting, the Facebook group has 686 members. Help us spread the word that where you buy your books really makes a difference. Not just for those working in your local independent bookstore, but for the health of each of those communities.
Thank you!
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