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00:00Hi there, this is Freya Blythe from the Bookshop by the Sea. I wanted to say a
00:03massive thank you for winning Independent Bookshop of the Year
00:08TikTok Book Awards 2024. It is such an honour, it's genuinely such a wonderful
00:14thing to be recognised for the hard work that we do in our community and I love
00:18that this is going to bring more tourists to our community in Aberystwyth
00:21and in Wales and hopefully benefit all of the other local businesses as well.
00:26We're doing a treasure trail that we announced yesterday on the day of
00:29announcing that we were winning that will take people all the way around
00:32local businesses and that'll be running all the way through the summer so
00:35hopefully some of that traffic that we've got from this award will also
00:40benefit the town as well. But it's just a genuine honour to see something that
00:44started off and is such a community-based project in Aberystwyth,
00:48such a community-based bookshop, to also have this worldwide community and this
00:54outreach on social media that people genuinely feel like they want to see
00:59the sunsets with us here in Aberystwyth and engage with our book club that we
01:03also have online and to have authors like Jasmine Donaghey that we have live
01:07in the bookshop in a couple of weeks time, we're also going to be doing that
01:11as a hybrid event online live on TikTok as well and so to see the people who
01:16are both able to engage in person and online is really exciting and something
01:20a little bit new, a little bit of a positive way to use social media and to
01:25reach people and inspire them to read more books. Thank you to everyone who
01:29voted, I'm so grateful and