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Publicity Sheet BookExpo 2017
Trends in the Richmond (#RVA) Market FOOD: Over 90 restaurants opened in Richmond in 2014 making it one of the fastest growing food markets in the United States, 100 in 2015, another 80+ in 2016. National Geographic Traveler named Richmond as a Top Ten City to Eat Worldwide for 2016DESTINATION: Richmond was named the #1 Travel Destination in the USA (#3 worldwide) for 2016 by Travel and Leisure MagazineCULTURE: Richmond is home to one of the largest public arts projects in the country The Richmond Mural Project and is also the home of the #1 university Sculpture Department OVERALL: In short, Richmond (#RVA) is an extremely hot and growing market for all types of interests and demographics. We were even judged Most Happy as reported by CBS Sunday Morning. Possibly because we also have the most breweries and wineries per capita in the U.S. according to WalletHub. Y’all come see us and find out!
Social and Traditional Media:•Twitter @FountainBkstore (8,132 followers)•Facebook (4,375 likes) •Instagram (1,367 followers) •Litsy (282 followers, 422 Litfluence...we’re new)•Book Club Meetup Group (329 members)•Events Meetup Group (139 members)•E-Newsletter (2,100+)•Print Newsletter (1,500 circulation)•Young Adult E-Newsletter beta (4,500+)
For all events contact Kelly Justice at (804)788-1594 or [email protected]
Special Programs and Noteworthy News• We shipped over 10,000 individual books to customers worldwide
in 2016. We are on par to do so again in 2017. We offer this service to all authors, not just those local to us.
• We now report as two stores for Nielsen: a bricks & mortar store and an online store with sales reported by zip code.
• We are the booksellers for The Junior League Book and Author Dinner with attendance of 900-1,400 annually.
• We are the booksellers for Womankind and are seeking headliners for February 2018. Audience 600+ progressive Christian women.
• JABBIESTM (Judge-A-Book-By-Its-SpineTM) programming continues to be highly successful at selling books across an imprint or house and is our most popular new programming.
• Ticketed dinners/luncheons with cookbook and non-cookbook authors are continuing to grow. No attendance less than 25 so far.
Contact Kelly Justice (804)788-1594 or [email protected]
