National Bookshop Day Saturday August 11

11am-2pm, Fullers Bookshop Hobart

On Saturday 11th August 2012, Fullers Bookshop asks you to support your community by joining with them to celebrate National Bookshop Day.

In locations all across Australia, bookshops will be celebrating. Buoyed by the success of the inaugural National Bookshop Day in 2011, Fullers will showcase its place in the community by hosting community leaders in store and a sausage sizzle (gold coin donation for Indigenous Literacy).

Community leaders have selected their favourite books and will be trying their hand at bookselling. Confirmed so far are Andrew Holman, editor at the Mercury, Heather Francis, CEO of the Royal Hobart Hospital Research Foundation, Dale Campisi, editor of Island, Craig Joel, local author, Rebecca Fitzgibbon, Mercury culture columnist and Craig Mackie, managing partner of Mackie Crompton Barristers and Solicitors.

The Recyclibrarians will also be setting up their innovative free book exchange nearby and there will be a live blog of the day’s celebrations on social media.

Supported by the Australian Booksellers Association, bookshops will be reinforcing their message that local bookshops are an integral part of the Australian way of life.

Throughout Australia, hundreds of shops will be holding events and having activities, or simply saying thank you to the readers, writers, libraries and schools that support them.

Rachel Edwards, Events Manager Fullers Bookshop