An independent bookseller in Harrogate tweeted out about her worst day ever of sales in sheer desperation and bibliophiles have flocked to support the shop, inundating her with orders.
Georgia Duffy who owns the ImaginedThings bookshop in Harrogate tweeted that the bookshop had had its worst day ever, taking just £12.34 on Monday, but the tweet garnered support like she could never have imagined.
We only took £12.34 today?…if anyone was thinking about buying a book now would be a great time! Things have been tough recently – today the worst day ever. A card,a book,anything makes a huge difference to a small business like ours. We’d be very grateful for your support.
— ImaginedThings Books (@ImaginedThings) June 25, 2018
Since her plea on Monday more than one million people have clicked the tweet and over 5,000 people are talking about the bookshop, offering support in the form of online orders.
The shop opened last July becoming the first independent bookshop in Harrogate in nearly twenty years. Georgia Duffy says that since they opened they have faced some difficult periods, but the last couple of weeks had been especially hard.
She never expected the post to go viral and has now been inundated with so many orders she has a backlog and had to hurriedly set up Paypal to allow her to take online orders.
By Monday night ImaginedThings was struggling to process all the online orders received and thanked everyone for their support.
Tried to reply to as many people as possible but you’re all amazing and there’s just so many coming in!! ?So sorry if we haven’t responded to you yet if you’re wanting to order. We will get back to you ASAP.We’ll get right back on it tomorrow! But now must sleep… amazing day! pic.twitter.com/4qOeeB8wsY
— ImaginedThings Books (@ImaginedThings) June 26, 2018
If you wish to support Harrogate’s only independent bookshop you can find them on Twitter or at Westminster Arcade on Parliament Street, Harrogate.

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