May's Bookshop of the Month

Congratulations to The Berwyn Bookshop in Mynydd Isa, North Wales, who are our Caboodle Bookshop of the Month for May.

 

The Berwyn Bookshop is a family-run, independent bookshop, which opened in 2022. They stock a large selection of second-hand books of all genres, as well as new titles and works from local authors.

The past couple of years have been challenging for the team, who have been working on resurrecting the bookshop following a devastating fire in 2021 which destroyed Berwyn Books, a local bookshop in the nearby town of Buckley. With the amazing help and support of the local community the shop has relocated to Mynydd Isa Community Centre with a new name and under new management. They host regular author events and book signings, and we’re glad to see that Caboodle helps them spread the word.

Adam from the team tell us:

“We have found Caboodle to be a fantastic way to promote events and promotions with a self-curated target audience – booklovers who want to know about them!

We do, of course, use social media as an outlet, and that is great, but Caboodle enables us to direct information straight to those who are more likely to be interested.”

Congratulations to the team at The Berwyn Bookshop who will receive a delicious food and craft beer hamper to help them celebrate.

Could your bookshop be next? 


You could win a luxury food and wine hamperCaboodle Local is your one-stop-shop for local marketing, helping you communicate with thousands of booklovers – for free! Here's how you could win next month's Bookshop of the Month award and hamper:

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    2. Update your bookshop page with a photo and description
    3. Add your offers, such as discounts, freebies, events, children's offers, and updates

All offers will appear on the Caboodle, National Book Tokens and Books Are My Bag websites, and are emailed to Caboodlers near your bookshop.

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Previous Bookshops of the Month

Check out our winners from the past year.

 

April 2023

April 2023

Truman Books
 

"We always post all of our events on Caboodle. It has great reach into our local community and beyond."

Truman Books
March 2023

March 2023

Next Page Books
 

"...we make sure that we add all our regular events as recurring ones [and] author event or pre orders with an end date and leave Caboodle to do the work of spreading the word to their subscribers!"

Next Page Books
February 2023

February 2023

Max Minerva's
 

"Caboodle really helped us with visibility for our events and offers. It reaches a dedicated segment of our audience that we couldn't with social or traditional marketing. We've now got new loyal customers because of it."

Max Minerva's
January 2023

January 2023

Victoria Bookshop
 

"I love using Caboodle to let people know what new signed copies have just come in or our events. [...] Caboodle is a free and easy way to communicate anything to booklovers, whatever your shop is doing."

Victoria Bookshop
December 2022

December 2022

The Heath Bookshop
 

"...we knew it would be important to get on to Caboodle as soon as possible. We've had 12 events now and Caboodle has been a big part of building up our audience numbers."

The Heath Bookshop
November 2022

November 2022

Wonderland Bookshop
 

"Caboodle is a great way for us to share what's happening in the bookshop and to reach a wider audience.. it's an easy and useful way of keeping people informed."

Wonderland Bookshop
October 2022

October 2022

Afrori Books
 

"Caboodle is important for us as we have a lot of followers on social media, but unless we pay for localised ads it means that it is difficult to target local customers and visitors."

Afrori Books
September 2022

September 2022

Kenilworth Books
 

"We love organising author events and running our book group. Caboodle is great because it makes it easy to spread the word to a wide audience of book lovers both near and far."

Kenilworth Books
August 2022

August 2022

Wave of Nostalgia
 

"We try ever so hard to make our little shop as inclusive as possible and Caboodle makes it easy to reach out to a wide audience who we know love our strong women focused books."

Wave of Nostalgia
July 2022

July 2022

Madhatter Books
 

"A big thank you to Caboodle for making this platform quick and easy to use! Caboodle enables us to connect with booklovers near and far!"

Madhatter Books
June 2022

June 2022

Kibworth Books
 

"Caboodle is a great platform for connecting us with our local (and wider) community and it really helps to foster excitement around a shared love of books."

Kibworth Books
May 2022

May 2022

Village Books
 

"We love using Caboodle at Village Books. We know that we reach a wider audience than we normally would by using Caboodle to advertise our events."

Village Books (Dulwich Books)
April 2022

April 2022

Book-ish
 

"...it’s been so important for people to know what we’re up to, such as author events, launches or offers. Caboodle is super easy to use and the benefits make it a no-brainer!"

Book-ish
March 2022

March 2022

P & G Wells
 

"... we are already seeing the benefits of using Caboodle to keep up to date with what other booksellers are doing and to promote our shop and events including book launches and author talks..."

P & G Wells
February 2022

February 2022

Not Just Books
 

"... we really appreciate the reach [Caboodle] has given us with booklovers [which] has helped us through these challenging times. It’s also nice to chat with our customers who also appreciate all [...] that Caboodle offers them."

Not Just Books
January 2022

January 2022

Centre Books and Gifts
 

"Caboodle gave us the perfect platform with which to shout about our new online store opening... it proved really helpful to have an extra advertising place to boost all the hard work we had put in."

Centre Books and Gifts
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