Saturday, April 24, is National Independent Bookstore Day. Every independent bookstore is unique — which is sort of the point — so there is no unified program. Here is the announcement from Evanston's Bookends & Beginnings:
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Join our “Friends Don’t Let Friends Buy Books from Amazon” campaign
If you’re cheering us on in the Amazon lawsuit, we want you to help us make this a movement! On Independent Bookstore Day, the first 10 people to purchase a copy of the book How to Resist Amazon and Why will get a second copy free to give away to someone else. These 10 copies were donated by Downtown Evanston, which supports all the merchants in your downtown area and wants to encourage everyone to shop locally.
And anyone who buys two copies of this neat little $12.95 manifesto will get $2 off the purchase. So then you can still have an extra to give away, to help spread the word about those less-visible consequences of Amazon shopping involving labor practices, data privacy, local economies, and the damage done to the book publishing industry.
These offers are only good in-store–not for online orders!
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Shop our unique Independent Bookstore Day 2021 merchandise.
These are items produced uniquely for the IBD celebration, and include: Signed copies of Jeff VanderMeer’s new novel Hummingbird Salamander; copies of In the Tall Grass, a short story by Stephen King and Joe Hill never before published in book form; special edition Blackwing pencils created just for IBD; and this year’s limited edition IBD tote bags.
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Steve, of the last ten books you bought, how many were from Amazon (including kindle)? Those of us past a certain age feel great sadness with the disappearance of bookstores, even Barnes and Noble ones, but the reality is they are a dying breed.
Paul B: The last ten book I've purchased have all been from Bookends & Beginnings, Evanston's surviving independent bookstore (including one yesterday). And also the ten before that, and the ten before that.
I do not have a Kindle. I am willing to wait a few days for my books. (I suppose it would be different if I did any extensive travel, in which case a Kindle could be important weight-wise).
Some people no doubt have to rely on Amazon, but we should all patronize bookstores as much as we possibly can.