2026 Midwest Indie Bookstore Roadmap
Our bookstore and their customers look forward to this all year long!
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Your partnership makes this beloved resource possible
Promote your author's tour or bookish event happening in the Midwest this summer or fall:
🗺️So many readers use our map to find bookstores on their vacations, they'd be delighted to see info about author visits and literary events too!
🗺️A QR Code with tour dates along with the book cover and author headshot would make for great promotional images!
🗺️If you'd like, we can help you incorporate info from the map or directory into your advertisement. Let's get creative!
Your partnership includes:
- The satisfaction that you helped spread 100,000+ print Roadmaps across the Midwest and beyond (and lots of folks living outside of the Midwest order maps on our website)
- Representation in 100,000+ print Roadmaps
- An Edelweiss collection is created with all books featured in print ads and it's sent to our 380+ bookstores as an ordering tool
- Dedicated social media posts across our most popular channels
- Permanent placement on our Roadmap Partners page
Order Your Ad Here
What MIBA bookstores say abut the Roadmap:
"We keep the Roadmap up on the wall next to our cash register and customers are always drawn to it! Kids (and adults) love to find their hometowns and favorite bookstores. Book lovers are delighted to be able to take a copy of the map. I always tell them it's the best way to travel and they agree. Customers often tell us they found us from the map."---Gwen Danfelt, Drury Lane Books (Grand Marais, MN)
"The Roadmap is the perfect way to promote independent bookstores in the region and we have run out of them each year. Our customers say they love seeing how many stores they can visit, and we’ve heard that some have it up on their walls. We had to put our framed map away when we ran out since customers were asking for a copy! I also love to use the graphics from the map, especially the custom graphic of our store, which we use in a lot of different, unique promotions."
--Carol Blizzard Dunn, Northwind Book & Fiber (Spooner, WI)
Website guests have ordered thousands of maps, here's why:
"My sister is turning 60 this year, LOVES to read, so I'm planning a Wisconsin Independent Bookstore roadtrip for her. The roadmap is a great addition to the weekend!)"
"I'm a bookstore customer. I'm taking a few road trips this summer across the Midwest and thought I can use this roadmap to find cool bookstores along the way as well."
"My daughter graduated high school this year and we are both avid readers. I'm buying this map of indie bookstores to give her as a challenge for us to visit them all together!"
"A gift for my husband for Christmas so we can take some day trips."
"Looking forward to exploring more independent bookstores in the area with friends!"
"I try to take a trip every year to an area that has multiple of the stores from the map. This year is special because my partner and I had our very first 'Bookstore Crawl' trip together and it was an amazing time... It was a special trip and I want to mark on a map for us the places we went."