Used book sale gets national ink
Bookstock is like Woodstock, minus Jimi Hendrix, the hippies, and the mud. Actually, the two are only alike in name. But, if you’re a book lover, it might feel like the three day festival of love. Excerpt: For months, the books have piled up, stacked precariously in a donated storage room as volunteers separated the romance from the fiction, the cookbooks from the art books. This week, they’ll be marked with price tags and ready for perusal at Bookstock, one of Michigan’s largest used book sales of the year – and the first of its scale this season. “These books, they’re on the tables, they’re under the tables, there will even be more in storage,” Jodi Goodman, one of Bookstock’s cofounders, said of the weeklong sale at Laurel Park Place in Livonia, Mich. The proceeds are for a cause: Since its 2003 inception, Bookstock has raised $450,000 for a variety of metro-Detroit nonprofit organizations, including some that sponsor read-ins at Detroit elementary schools in hopes of promoting literacy and salving the city’s dismal 58% high school graduation rate. Read the entire article here.
Bookstock is like Woodstock, minus Jimi Hendrix, the hippies, and the mud. Actually, the two are only alike in name. But, if you’re a book lover, it might feel like the three day festival of love.
Excerpt:
For months, the books have piled up, stacked precariously in a donated storage room as volunteers separated the romance from the fiction, the cookbooks from the art books.
This week, they’ll be marked with price tags and ready for perusal at Bookstock, one of Michigan’s largest used book sales of the year – and the first of its scale this season.
“These books, they’re on the tables, they’re under the tables, there will even be more in storage,” Jodi Goodman, one of Bookstock’s cofounders, said of the weeklong sale at Laurel Park Place in Livonia, Mich.
The proceeds are for a cause: Since its 2003 inception, Bookstock has raised $450,000 for a variety of metro-Detroit nonprofit organizations, including some that sponsor read-ins at Detroit elementary schools in hopes of promoting literacy and salving the city’s dismal 58% high school graduation rate.
Read the entire article here.
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