Wednesday, June 4, 2008

The Dog & Pony Show

From this morning's Shelf Awareness:

"Incidentally overall attendance at BEA was 28,494, which was up compared to the last BEA in Los Angeles, in 2003, when attendance was 27,143. By contrast, attendance last year in New York, traditionally the most popular site for BEA, was 36,112.
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Total attendance of booksellers, librarians and other non-exhibitors, including the press, was 9,250."

9250! I think this just might explain how they can even think about meeting in Las Vegas next year. I wonder how the ratio of attendees to performers rate against other trade shows?

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