When Book Fair officials indicated in September that the total number of exhibitors for this year’s convention was likely to fall by about 5 percent a European wire started played up the “decline” as a digital casualty. But at today’s opening press conference, the Fair said that total exhibitors are actually up, at 7,533, a three percent increase over last year. But that number isn’t particularly meaningful since, as in previous years, the full fair will comprise the exact same amount of exhibition space. “Strong demand” for tables in the Literary Agents Center (and the volcanically-quiet London Book Fair this […]
