Video Urges Stores to Join Banned Books Read-Out

The American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression [1] (ABFFE) has released a new video urging bookstores to join the national read-out from banned books that will be featured on YouTube during this year’s celebration of Banned Books Week, from September 30 to October 6.

In the two-minute video, ABFFE President Chris Finan explains that booksellers contributed more than 90 of the 800 videos produced for last year’s read-out.

Karen Emmerling of Beach Books [2] in Seaside, Oregon, was one of the booksellers who participated last year.  “It was fun.  It was easy, and the only thing I would change this year is to invite more people,” she says in the video.

The video can be viewed here and on the ABFFE website [3]. The web page also contains links to an instructional video, written instructions and a poster that bookstores can used to promote the read-out.