Above / Known for their engaging booksignings in downtown Naperville and other local locations, Anderson’s Bookshop is being recognized with a big gift from Sourcebooks for all its readers’ recommendations.
Anderson’s Bookshop in Naperville is the grand prize winner in independent publisher Sourcebooks’s “Readers, Recommend Your Bookstore” nationwide sweepstakes. Sourcebooks CEO and Publisher Dominique Raccah will present the $3,000 top prize to the Anderson family at the downtown Naperville store at 10AM on Friday, April 1.
Out of more than 12,000 votes cast, Anderson’s received 934 during the six-week contest with other booksellers across the country. The “Readers, Recommend Your Bookstore Campaign” is inspired by the phenomenal support booksellers have given to The New York Times bestseller, The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald, which was selected as the #1 Indie Next Great Read for January 2016.
Bivald’s novel is a charming, big-hearted story about the joy of books and the transformative power of community bookstores. Anderson’s rallied their customers with displays in the store, social media and e-newsletter outreach.
“Bookstores are the heart and soul of their community and have enormous impact on readers’ lives,” said Dominique Raccah, founder and CEO of Sourcebooks. “The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend inspired us to create a campaign that will not only give back to a few deserving bookstores, but hopefully highlight all the many wonderful bookstores that service communities across the country.”
The two runners-up, Page and Palate in Fairhope, Alabama, and Brilliant Books in Traverse City, Michigan, were each awarded $637, which is the population of Bivald’s fictional Broken Wheel, Iowa.
