"There hasn't ever really been a shortage of readers. Readers still want to read books and still have very strong interest in what authors have to say. What's happening in publishing and bookselling is that we're undergoing a massive change in the delivery system. It's a distribution issue more than anything else. Writers are writing great things, and readers want to read them.... In many ways, the book fair does it so perfectly. We're able to attract readership by having live authors.''
--Mitchell Kaplan, owner of Books & Books and chairperson of the Miami Book Fair, in a Miami Herald article that observed: "Right here, right now, people still like print."
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