San Diego Book(store) Crawl: Independent Bookstore Day

Saturday is Independent Bookstore Day.  

While many bookstores organize individual events, bookstores in San Diego are working together to offer a book crawl, involving multiple stores in the event in a manner that builds customer bases for all the stores ("San Diego Book Crawl returns for 8th year with more locations," San Diego Union-Tribune). 14 stores are participating.

The concept of Independent Bookstore Day is expanding as this year is the launch of the Global Book Crawl event, stores in Southern California are participating ("6 Southern California independent bookstores join first-ever Global Book Crawl," Orange County Register, "Indie Booksellers Launch Ambitious Global Bookstore Crawl," Publishers Weekly).

Rather than one day, the Global Book Crawl

is a week, starting yesterday.

"... from April 21-27, the event involves 300 bookstores in more than 70 cities across 20 countries"