A few telling nuggets from this year's event:
- Major publishing houses, such as Random House and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, cut so far back on floor space that they held meetings in windowless basement rooms.
- The Associated Press described this year's Expo as "a low-budget, low-celebrity convention, with fewer parties and fewer advanced copies of books than in the past, and a sense that the best way to meet expectations was to lower them."
- Instead of continuing as a three-day weekend show, next year's Expo is likely to be scaled down, maybe held midweek over two days, and maybe open to the public.
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