Monday, April 17, 2017

The Roundup with PW

Bologna 2017: Total Attendees Up 2%, Foreigners Up 15%
The Bologna Children's Book Fair's official attendance numbers are in. Last week's show drew 26,743 people, putting attendance 2% higher than at last year's event.
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Bologna 2017: Busy? Quiet? Both? Fair Attendees Leave Satisfied, Regardless
Forget a "book of the fair"—agents, publishers, and editors at the 2017 Bologna Children’s Book Fair didn’t really come to a consensus on whether this year’s fair was bustling or tempered. "I had the feeling that I was swimming upstream whenever I wandered the aisles," said Brooke O’Donnell of Trafalgar Square.
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