{"id":111976,"date":"2025-09-02T00:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111976\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T00:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T00:36:08","slug":"booktopia-hosts-bookfair-raises-300000-for-lifeline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111976\/","title":{"rendered":"Booktopia hosts bookfair, raises $300,000 for Lifeline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tTuesday, 2 September 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/booksandpublishing\/\" class=\"entry-social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> @booksandpublishing<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Booktopia opened its Sydney warehouse to the public for the first time since 2023 in support of Lifeline.<\/p>\n<p>The company\u2019s inaugural book fair ran 23\u201324 August and raised over $300,000 for Lifeline, making it Lifeline\u2019s \u2018fastest money-raising event in recent years\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Organisers reported over 8000 people attended the event to search for new reads among the 50,000 available books.<\/p>\n<p>Booktopia general manager Jon MacDonald said, \u2018Our partnership with Lifeline brings together a shared passion for books, community and helping others. The book fair has been an enormous success and we were thrilled with the support of so many happy book enthusiasts.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Lifeline Harbour to Hawkesbury Sydney CEO Elizabeth Lovell said, \u2018These funds enable us to further elevate our proposition and support vital suicide prevention and crisis support services where and when needed.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>More information is available on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lifelineh2hsydney.org.au\/love-books\/lifeline-book-fair-powered-by-booktopia\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the Lifeline website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"catlist\">Category: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.booksandpublishing.com.au\/?category_name=local-news\" class=\"catitem\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Local\u00a0news<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 2 September 2025 \u00a0 Books+Publishing @booksandpublishing Booktopia opened its Sydney warehouse to the public for the first&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111977,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[77,64,63,11192,11195,11189,3952,457,11194,3331,134,11191,1736,11193,11190],"class_list":["post-111976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-author-interviews","tag-book-awards","tag-book-news","tag-book-reviews","tag-books","tag-bookseller-jobs","tag-ebooks","tag-entertainment","tag-library-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-publishing-jobs","tag-publishing-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111976\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}