Louisville, Kentucky, is hosting next week’s American Independent Business Alliance “Go Local, Grow Local” Conference, and GLIBA members can take advantage of special half- or single-day rates, courtesy of the Louisville Independent Business Alliance.
Bookstores’ promotional plans for World Book Night’s “great giveaway” include a mini parade of lights, TV crews filming the odyssey of the givers, and entertainment provided by local teenage musicians.
Booksellers Leslie Reiner, Carol Chittenden, Roxanne Coady, Sam Droke-Dickinson, Valerie Koehler, Ellen Mager, and Kenny Brechner talk about their efforts to close the widening literacy gap between the rich and the poor.
The buzz for World Book Night just got a lot louder. This week, givers found out which books they’ll be giving away and confirmed their pickup locations, and bookstores were busy planning events and creating displays.
ABA has created a new poster to help member stores promote the April 23 celebration of World Book Night. The 18" x 36" color poster was shipped last Friday to all stores that have been accepted as World Book Night pick-up locations.
World Book Night is providing a way for stores that are already signed up to be pick-up locations to bring in extra boxes of books for groups of givers and for customers who come in close to the April 23 celebration and express an interest in being a part of the million-book giveaway.
World Book Night has extended the sign-up deadline to midnight on Monday, February 6, for book givers and for stores and libraries that would like to serve as book pick-up locations for the April 23 celebration of reading.
To participate as book givers in the April 23 celebration of World Book Night, booksellers and their customers must sign up by February 1. Stores must also sign up by February 1 if they wish to be a book pick-up location.
