Bookshop Day 2025 at Scorpio Books

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You are cordially invited to Scorpio Books on Saturday the 11th of October to celebrate Bookshop Day! We have a plethora of special offers to spice up the shop and celebrate the joy of good books. Join the party any time between 10am and 5pm in our stores at Five Lanes, 120 Hereford Street. There will be spot prizes, giveaways, special appearances by local authors, blind dates with books, literature-themed dress-ups and the chance to win our Big Bookstack! If you’re looking for things for young readers to do, make sure you check out what’s happening across the courtyard at Telling Tales as well.

• Bookshop Day is about celebrating your local bookshop. Share why you love what we do, and you can go in the draw to receive one of four prizes of $250 in Booksellers Book Tokens, courtesy of Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand. All you need to do is fill in a special Love Your Bookshop Postcard at our in-store activity station. Write the reasons why you love your local bookstore on the postcard, hand it in to us, and we’ll send it in to Booksellers Aotearoa New Zealand after Bookshop Day.
• This year Scorpio Books is giving away a BIG BOOKSTACK of new releases to one lucky customer! Every in-store purchase earns you one entry form- just don’t forget to place it in the entry box! This enormous prize will be drawn after trading closes at 5pm on Bookshop Day, and it contains a range of books as eclectic as our store.
• We are running our Blind Date with a Book promotion again this Bookshop Day but with a special, cerebral twist. This year, customers can go on a Blind Date with a BWB Text! For just $10, get paired up with a short book on a big subject relevant to Aotearoa New Zealand. Usually priced between $17.99-$20, these wrapped up beauties will be available at their special price on Bookshop Day, while stocks last in-store and online. They each have a brief bio attached so you can find your perfect match! BWB Texts is a non-profit programme made possible by the BWB Publishing Trust, with support from Ockham Residential and Creative New Zealand. Staff at Scorpio Books love these little books, and we hope to sow the seeds of curiosity for these big topics in as many readers as we can.
• There will be heaps of spot prizes to giveaway on the day. Keep an eye on our Scorpio Books social media accounts for the code word. Repeat this code word to staff at our main counter on Bookshop Day, and you can pick your prize from our special Bookshop Day stash!
• Another way to get a chance to raid the spot prize stash: dress up! Come to the store on Bookshop Day in a literature-themed costume, say hi to our staff at our main counter, and you too can receive a special spot prize.
• For Bookshop Day only, Scorpio Books will be hiding one Libro.fm Golden Ticket somewhere in its stacks. The lucky person who finds this golden ticket will win 12 credits to exchange for audiobooks with Libro.fm! Libro.fm shares profits from audiobook purchases with your chosen bookshop, giving you the power to keep money within your local economy. They are a Social Purpose Corporation, Certified B Corp, and 100% employee-owned. To find out more about the partnership of Libro.FM and Scorpio Books, take a look at our digital Libro.FM bookstore here.
• Have you got a wallet filled with old Scorpio Books loyalty cards? Lucky you – Loyalty Card Amnesty is back, exclusively for Bookshop Day. Bring in your expired loyalty cards and we will treat them as valid. Terms and conditions apply.
• Penguin Books New Zealand are bringing back their immensely popular Personal Penguins. Customers who purchase two Penguin books on Bookshop Day 2025 receive a Personal Penguin figure in a beautiful collector’s box. Psst- these penguins are different to last year’s!
• From 3pm, swing by the shop to hear some of our favourite local authors reading from their books. This event is free – our special guests will be announced soon! Stay tuned for the update.

Bookshop Day is run by the Booksellers Association of New Zealand to encourage book lovers, like you, to celebrate your local bookshop. The artwork this year is by Donovan Bixley, who took our themes of Community, Hope and Fun and created these masterpieces. Keep an eye on the Booksellers Association of New Zealand website and their social media for updates on how you can celebrate Bookshop Day around the country. We can’t wait to celebrate 10 years of Bookshop Day with you!

Media enquiries: contact events@scorpiobooks.co.nz