Yes it’s the London Book Fair that just ended, not Book Expo America,but the story for the upcoming American show is already taking clearshape, and we’d like to get past what won’t happen realistically and onto what can happen. Going by current tracking, show organizers say to expect roughly 20percent fewer exhibitors (around 1,500 to 1,600, rather than the typical1,900 to 2000); and about 15 percent fewer attendees than the 2007 NY show but 20 percent more than last year in LA, with a steeperdrop of more like thirty percent among attending exhibitors. There are likely to be fewer ABA […]
