BookExpo America: Odds and ends
By Paul Biba
Here’s a shot of them setting up the Expo floor, taken from the Press Room.
At a general press conference about the show we were told
- Attendance is down 14% from 2007 in New York, but up 36% from 2008 in LA. Exhibitor registration is down 10-15% from last year and square footage is down 21%
- Michael Smith of the IDPF organized a panel about marketing ebooks that played to standing room only. The place was packed and, by a show of hands, they were almost all publishers. Pretty much the same stuff I reported on at the IDPF conference, including the speakers, but Andrew Weinstein of Ingram gave some interesting numbers I hadn’t heard before:
- In the library market not only are sales to libraries up, but the actual usage of the digital media by the end users is increasing as well;
- Digital textbook users tripled on their platform over last year;
- Students shared over 3 million notes on Ingram’s textbook platform in January.
Here’s a shot of the room:
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