Support East Bay Booksellers' Comeback

UPDATE:

HI All,

In response to the immediate tragedy of the fire at East Bay Booksellers we set up TWO GoFundMe campaigns by mistake for Brad and East Bay Booksellers.

We have transferred all funds in this campaign to EBB's account and are halting this campaign.

Please go to EBB Come Back to donate to the sustaining and reviving of East Bay Booksellers.

Thanks for all of your support ~ past, present and future!

John, Alison & Brad

This morning the building housing East Bay Booksellers burned down. The building was home to dozens of offices, the original Diesel, A Bookstore, and then when Brad Johnson purchase Diesel -- to East Bay Booksellers.

It has also been a community home, an intellectual home, an artistic home and a literary home for so many, for the last 30 years. In a beautiful old building from the '40s it was reimagined by the Wilsons to provide all of these services, inside its hollow-brick walls, and glorious wooden ceiling with clerestory windows.

As fellow booksellers, and as friends of Brad and the Bay Area reading community we are joining with others to hopefully raise some funds to help East Bay Booksellers' booksellers, Brad and the store find its way back to being the vital bookstore that it is.

Please donate what you can to rebuild this civil and cultural institution. We'll all appreciate it and don't know how it will happen without each of us.

~ Booksellers for East Bay Booksellers