This blog post is dedicated to ways that someone can provide support to their local bookstores. If people stop supporting used bookstores, it will eliminate an alternative that keeps literature inexpensive for a large portion of people.
Edward Mckay, a used bookstore in Winston-Salem and Greensboro states on their donation page that “Most of our inventory we get—from you.” Like many small businesses, used bookstores will not survive without people to come and support them.
The most obvious means of support would to buy books, dvds, and other items from a local bookstore. Not only does it give the business money to continue operations, but it can promote them as a business when someone asks “Where did you get that, I want to read it now!”
Another way that you can support a bookstore is attending events, such as The Last Word's Encore: Open Mic by Guerilla Poets. Although there are some direct benefits to the community through those events, they often bring in new business. One of the ways that you can help the local bookstore that you frequent is to bring someone with you when you attend those events because they could potentially start coming on their own.
Humans are social beings and spend a lot of time talking about the things that they love in hopes that they will find someone that likes the same things, or will be able to convince someone else to like what they like. Talking to people about a local bookstore that you go to all of the time because they have cats or a cozy reading corner can ensure that the cats are around for a long time to come.
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