Indie Bookstore Customers Win Top 20 Indie Next List Picks

The Indie Next List Great Reads Sweepstakes offered customers at ABA member stores the opportunity to fill out a coupon featured on the June, July, or August Indie Next List flier to enter a drawing to win all 20 of the month’s Indie Next List Great Reads. The promotion, part of the Indie Next List Years of Discovery Campaign that launched in May, recently concluded with the drawing of the winners for the July and August lists.

Karen Walker of Tinley Park, Illinois, the winner of the July sweepstakes, picked up her Indie Next List flier and entry coupon at Brilliant Books in Traverse City, Michigan.

Walker, who spoke to BTW while she was awaiting the arrival of the 20 frontlist titles on the July Indie Next List, said she was very excited about winning the books.

“It was such a treat shopping at Brilliant Books,” said Walker, adding that there is no bookstore in the town where she and her family live. “While we were on vacation, we spotted Brilliant Books. That was our first stop when we checked out the town. Our whole family really enjoyed looking around and buying books.”

V. Schwartz of Guilderland, New York, who won August’s 20 titles after picking up the Indie Next List flier at Market Block Books in nearby Troy, said she decided to enter the sweepstakes because the drawing was going to happen close to her birthday.

“I am thrilled to be a winner,” Schwartz said. “I generally read fiction or history books, but perhaps will find new interests in some of the titles you are sending me.”

As announced earlier this summer, Laura Murray of Sunriver, Oregon, who picked up her Indie Next List flier and entry coupon at The Bookworks in Pacific Grove, California, won the 20 frontlist titles from the June Indie Next List.

Questions about the INL Years of Discovery Campaign should be addressed to Senior Program Officer Joy Dallanegra-Sanger or Development Officer Mark Nichols.