London Book Fair officials estimated that total attendance for the ash-stricken show declined by about a third. Given that typically 45 percent of attendees are from overseas, if you presume that UK-attendance was down slightly based on cancellations, that means international attendance was likely down by two-thirds. Show director Alistair Burtenshaw sent a letter to exhibitors dangling a vague promise of making some kind of amends to exhibitors because of the impairments to the typical fair experience but no further explanation was offered for how. He wrote: “I would not want you to be under the impression that we have […]
