California Bookstore Day is modeled on Record Store Day, which has been a huge sales boon for indie record stores. CBD will harness the creative power of the reading and writing community to drive readers to indie bookstores on May 3.

For one day, and one day only, limited, unique, word-based items and books will be available in more than 150 stores across CA. These aren’t your run-of-the-mill signed first editions—these are literature-based art projects, unique books, and collector’s items created for this event only. You can’t get them before. You can’t get them after. And you can’t get them on Amazon.

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