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Independent Bookstore Champions

Apr

19

2022

Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Passport Challenge 2022 April 30- May 9!

The preposterously popular Seattle Independent Bookstore Day Passport Challenge is coming back this year!… Here’s how it will work: beginning on Independent Bookstore Day (Saturday, April 30), you can pick up a Bookstore Day Passport at any of the 24 participating Seattle-area stores. And then, unlike in usual years, when you had only a single …

May

7

2019

Emily and Wayne outside Island Books

We Are the [Seattle Independent Bookstore] Champions!

originally posted April 29, 2019 by Emily Adams for her blog at svcascadia.com: The last Saturday in April is Independent Bookstore Day across the United States. In Seattle, it is also Seattle Bookstore Day, home to the Seattle Bookstore Challenge. Each of the past four years I have taken the challenge and visited each of the participating stores, …

Apr

12

2019

storefront of Madison Books in Seattle

Madison Books in Seattle OPEN April 27, 2019!

From Shelf Awareness April 11, 2019 by Alex Mutter Seattle’s Madison Books Plans IBD Opening When Madison Books opens in Seattle, Wash., on April 27, Independent Bookstore Day, it will be the first new, general-interest, independent bookstore in the city’s Madison Park neighborhood since 2005. The roughly 400-square-foot bookstore is a sister store to Phinney Books, …

May

1

2018

1

remark

Independent Bookstore Day 2018 in Review: Oh, What a Party!

On Saturday, April 28, 2018, people celebrated Independent Bookstore Day around the country. The Pacific Northwest was chock-full of bookish delight! We love this recap of Independent Bookstore Day/ Seattle Bookstore Day from adventurers/bloggers Emily and Aaron of Two Dusty Travelers: “twodustytravelers 12 hours. 2 ferries. 123 miles. 19 independent bookstores. 2 @seabookstoreday Grand Champions!! 🎉🏆 We bought …

May

23

2017

Seattle Bookstore Day Indie Champions Celebrated

On Sunday, May 21, the Seattle bookstore community came together to fete the dedicated souls who completed Seattle Bookstore Day challenge (19 bookstores in one day!) on Independent Bookstore Day on April 29. Over 300 champions completed the challenge. Island Books of Mercer Island, WA (bookstore home to three-time Indie Champion and nwbooklovers contributor James …

May

2

2017

1

remark

Seattle Bookstore Day 2017: Champions’ Journey

Saturday April 29 marked the third national Independent Bookstore Day and the third Seattle Bookstore Day. In Seattle, the weather held and bookstore love was out in full force. The Seattle Bookstore Day Indie Challenge increased to 23 participating stores, with a visit to 19 stores required to achieve Indie Champion status (and a 25% discount …

Apr

26

2017

OTTER Award

Pick Up WA State Children’s Choice List Winners on Independent Bookstore Day

Erin Ostrander, a King County Library System children’s librarian, Sasquatch Award Committee Member, and indie bookstore champion, has a great recommendation for Saturday’s Independent Bookstore Day celebrants: …teachers and librarians taking the challenge on Saturday could purchase the new nominees for two of our state children’s choice lists; both were just announced over the weekend. OTTER Award Nominees …

Apr

24

2017

SEAbookstoreday map 2017 Independent Bookstore Day

SEABookstoreDay Map Gets Attention

Shoreline Area News published a feature about the map created by Third Place Books’ graphic designer, Stephen Crowe, for the fourth annual Seattle Bookstore Day (@SEABookstoreDay) passport for the Seattle area’s celebration of Independent Bookstore Day on Saturday, April 29. On a personal level, Crowe’s map is exemplary of his skill and love of books. …

May

6

2016

2

remarks

Independent Bookstore Day: Busman’s Holiday for PNW Book Industry

Bookstores and their employees put on a tremendous community effort for Independent Bookstore Day, but some book industry folks were able to get outside their regular stores to participate in all the fun. On Seattle Bookstore Day, one interstate bookloving team, Team Snack Pack, documented their epic journey: Indie Bookstore Day was so much fun! …

Apr

28

2016

Wendy Ceballos and Garth Stein

Garth Stein and Wendy Ceballos Talk Up Independent Bookstore on New Day NW

 

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