Congratulations to Rose City Reader, the winner of April’s Reading Local Contest!! For being the most active participant on Reading Local for the month of April, Rose City Reader wins a $25 gift certificate to the bookstore of her choice, and an additional $25 gift certificate provided by Broadway Books. $50 in free book money for leaving a few comments, sounds like a pretty good deal! She is off to a roaring start for May as well, having already left three comments.
I would also like to thank Helen, who came in a close second to Rose City Reader. Helen also was the impetus behind Reading Local ending up on KATU Channel 2 News. Maybe starting with June’s contest I will have to come up with a good way to get points for spreading the word about Reading Local as well.
Don’t forget May’s contest increases to $75 in free book money, as an additional $25 gift certificate is being provided by The Title Wave Used Bookstore. You can read the full details of the contest here.
I would like to send out a big thank you to contest sponsor Broadway Books, for being such a great supporter of the website!
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Yippy! But I would have left comments even without the prize. You have a great blog and it is really a terrific resource. This month, because of reading Reading Local, I found Ampersand bookstore, a new favorite, and I saw the cool book art exhibit at the Library.
To spread the word, how about awarding points for links left on other websites and blogs? I know that links are the currency of blog traffic.
Thanks again for the contest prizes. I used my $25 GC at Ampersand today. I ended up spending more than the $25 — of course. But that's part of the fun of it.
Of the several books I found at Ampersand, my favorite "local" book is Panoramas of Promise: Pacific Northwest Cities and Towns on Nineteenth Century Lithographs. Pretty nifty.