December marks the end of our fourth year doing popups at the Freedom Farmer’s Market at the Carter Center in Atlanta. (Officially, you could say fifth year, but our 2020 season was severely truncated by the Pandemic). Weather permitting, we will be out there on Saturday morning, December 7th. Cold weather does not bother us as we come equipped with hand and toe warmers and there are vendors serving hot coffee nearby (book burning is not an option).
In a more temperate venue, we also carry a sample of our offerings at Journeyman in downtown Decatur located near the Courthouse on Claremont Avenue. We have had our booth with them since the Fall of 2023. The Journeyman goes beyond being a bicycle repair and accessories shop, it also has a community coffee hangout vibe and our books reflect this.
For example, on Saturday afternoon (12/7) they are hosting a Maker’s Marketplace.
And finally, Destination Books has an online presence where we have stocked with some of the more popular books you’ve liked from the popups. It even has a few related categories such as Books on Books and Best of the Book Shopper, another blog we manage that has been spewing its opinions about books and book culture since 2009. Where else can you buy a copy of Jose CarriÓn's Against Amazon and Other Essays?
Our online store is powered by Bookshop.org and books purchased there raises money for local bookstores -- even pop-ups like this one. Sometimes Bookshop run deals on free shipping, and they are good about delivering books in a timely manner. And remember --
"There are no booksellers on Amazon. Human book recommendations were eliminated because they were understood to be inefficient and because they torpedoed speed, the only value the company recognizes." - Jose Carrion, Against Amazon and Other Essays