Bookshop
Santa Cruz, located in the heart of downtown Santa Cruz, has 20,000 square feet
of sales space and boasts a highly acclaimed children’s book section, as well
as extensive selections of fiction, cookbooks, politics, travel, and science
books. Our loyalty program, The Readers’ Club, has over 14,000 members.
Bookshop
holds events several times a month in our beautiful skylight room at the center
of our store, which seats 125 and can accommodate crowds of 350. In addition, our
fiction room is utilized for special events and workshops. We also host
off-site events at venues including The Rio Theatre (seats 700) and The Civic
Auditorium (seats 2,000). Bookshop Santa Cruz has welcomed numerous acclaimed
authors to town including David Sedaris, Stephen King, Jane Fonda, Dr. Andrew
Weil, Art Spiegelman, Isabel Allende, Armistead Maupin, and Lidia Bastianich.
We
report sales from all of our events (as well as weekly sales) to BookSense and New
York Times bestseller lists.