Photo: Emma Friedman/WBZ NewsRadio
BOSTON (WBZ NewsRadio) — April 26 is Independent Bookstore Day. The Greater Boston area prepped all month long with the Metro Boston Indie Bookstore Crawl.
People who visited their local participating independent bookstore could pick up a “passport.”
Shops from all over the area participated this year, including ones from Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.
Katherine Nazzaro, the general manager of Porter Square Books in Cambridge, told WBZ NewsRadio that “People had all month to go to as many bookstores as they wanted and get stamps for each bookstore they went to. Depending on how many stamps you get there are different prizes from each bookstore that you can redeem on Indie bookstore day.”
Read: Locally Owned Grocery Store Opens Location In MIT Student Center
Nazzaro mentioned that this multi-week event was established as a way to familiarize people with their local independent bookstores.
“This was just kind of an event to try to get people to know how many bookstores there are in the Boston area,” she said.
She also talked about how the event has been a massive success, with an unprecedented number of people participating.
“We were expecting people to be interested but we weren't expecting how many people would be picking up the passport; we had about 400 printed and are now out,” Nazzaro said. “I know several other bookstores across the list are out of passports and many bookstores were actually reprinting over a thousand more.”
WBZ NewsRadio’s Emma Friedman (@EmmaFriedmanWBZ) reports.