Queens Bookshop Initiative Launches Kickstarter Campaign

By Maryann Yin 

The Queens Bookshop Initiative hope to raise $70,000 on Kickstarter to open a new bookstore in Queens, NY. At this point in time, The Astoria Bookshop is the only bookstore conducting business within this New York City borough. We’ve embedded a video about this project above.

Here’s more from the Kickstarter web page: “Queens has a strong literary community with little to bring them together. We have lost the space where children can go for storytime, where local writers can share their work, and where you can meet your new favorite book or new best friend…We want to bring the opportunity we had to love bookstores to the people of Queens and have it be around the block.”

Welcome to our Kickstarter Publishing Project of the Week, a feature exploring how authors and publishers are using the fundraising site to raise money for book projects. If you want to start your own project, check out How To Use Kickstarter to Fund Your Publishing Project.