Help celebrate Bookshop Day on 12 October

Bookshop Day for 2024 will be held on Saturday 12 October. The day celebrates the crucial and exciting role bookshops and booksellers play in our communities – bookshops are place makers, cultural bastions and community hubs.

What you can do to support and promote Bookshop Day

Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand has developed a suite of shareable digital assets that can be used across book sector supporters to help spread the word about the day. Find these here: here.

Other ways Booksellers Aotearoa are asking the book sector to promote Bookshop Day include:

• Share the 2024 Bookshop Day date – let everyone know it’s on 12 October

• Share 2024 Bookshop Day events

• Share Booksellers 2024 Bookshop Day posts, author messages and assets

Drive foot traffic and web traffic to independent bookshops on Bookshop Day

• Mention Bookshop Day on social media in the week before and on the day

• Tag Booksellers and use the hashtag #bookshopdaynz

• Visit a bookshop yourself, and send your team out too! And your whanau! You just never know what kind of magic will find you on Bookshop Day and the show of support is a real cup-filler for booksellers at the end of a long hard winter

• Let Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand know your plans

• Keep an eye on Booksellers’ dedicated Bookshop Day webpage as they load up events happening around the motu.