The Bookshop Co-op is a bookseller with programming aimed at empowering our friends and neighbors and connecting people with the literature they didn’t know they needed.
About Us
Based in Stevens Point, WI, The Bookshop Co-op is a justice-driven, cooperatively owned, and operated pop-up bookstore, serving as a vehicle for education and community building. We sell consciousness-raising books, documentaries, and board games, and we sponsor events and programs such as wine and book pairings, cooperative game nights, pet adoption, and other events. We aim to foster societal transformations through access to knowledge in our community. We believe that every community deserves organizations that push the public consciousness to engage with the world more critically and approach each other with radical kindness. We also know that it's not enough to just know that inequalities exist but to instead have a critical and class-conscious approach to understanding why these issues exist and what we can all do to make the systems we interact with more equitable. We're more than just a bookshop; we're a force for good in our community.
Our Projects
Bookshop Co-op On Wheels!
We hope to take our bookselling on the road, bringing our curated selection of books to communities around central Wisconsin. We love people and we love books, we hope to combine our passions through this project.
Welcoming Bookmobile Fuelers!
Become a part of The Bookshop Co-op community. We’re offering a donation package that will help us get some wheels! For $40 you’ll receive some sweet merch while supporting our dream of taking literature on the road to towns and villages in the central Wisconsin region that don’t have bookstores.
Purchase the Fuel Campaign package in someone else’s name so they can say they are fueling the bookmobile.
When we do get a vehicle, we’ll be sure to put the names of all our donors on the vehicle so wherever we go, we know who helped us get there.
Popping up!
We’re popping up all over Central Wisconsin! Check our events page to see where we’ll be!
Thank you to all our community partners for the opportunity to pop up at your events!
Do you have an event where Bookshop could sell books? Email us!
The Bookshop Co-op Wins!
We were one of four winners of Surge! After working on this project from February to September 2021 we finally attended the Surge Expo with our fellow innovators and we won $2,500!
What is a cooperative business?
The Cooperative model emphasizes democratic member control and economic participation. Each member actively participates in decision-making.
“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.”
— Martin Luther King Jr.