Book lovers! Here's an anti-Prime Day sale courtesy of Bookshop.org
GET FREE SHIPPING AND 20% OFF: On Oct. 7 and 8, Bookshop.org is offering free shipping on all orders during its Anti-Prime Day sale. Plus, the sale is running concurrently with Banned Book Week, so you can score 20% off banned titles.
Not a fan of Prime Day? Listen, we get it. Amazon is the antithesis of shopping small and local, so it's understandable if you're totally disinterested in the retailer's biannual Prime Day events. The upside to Prime Day, regardless of whether or not you want to shop on Amazon, is that it has launched a barrage of anti-Prime Day sales. Often, these are from fellow retail giants, but smaller competitors join in on the action, too. Bookshop.org is running an anti-Prime Day sale on Oct. 7 and 8, allowing you to support local bookstores while still saving.
On Oct. 7, the same day that Amazon's Prime Big Deal Days kicks off, Bookshop.org is offering free shipping on all orders — no code needed. The timing of this deal is fortuitous, as it coincides with Banned Book Week. To fight censorship, Bookshop.org is marking banned books down by 20%. To get the deal, just use code 'BBW25' at checkout. The sale will run from Oct. 7 at 12 a.m. ET and run until Oct. 9 at 3 a.m. ET.
Amazon has a reputation for stealing the thunder from independent and local bookstores. This past April, Amazon launched a book sale that coincided with Independent Bookstore Day. Bookshop.org's sale is a direct response to Prime Day, encouraging shoppers to support their local bookstore. Each purchase on Bookstore.org directly supports a local bookstore of your choosing, while still allowing the convenience of online shopping.
So if you want to redirect your Prime Day money to benefit a local store, Bookshop.org lets you do just that.
Boston-based Shopping Reporter, Samantha Mangino, covers all things tech at Mashable, rounding up the best products and deals. She’s covered commerce for three years, spending extensive time testing and reviewing all things home, including couches, steam irons, and washing machines. She thoroughly vets products and internet trends, finding out if those cozy gamer chairs are really as comfortable as TikTok claims.
