Epilogue: LA Times Festival of Books

Publisher’s Weekly chimes in with a wrap-up of the 16th annual LA Times Festival of Books, held this past weekend on the campus of USC rather than UCLA.

While an LA Times rep informs there were 12% more exhibitors compared to 2010 and twice the amount of sponsors, the move from LA’s west side to downtown also triggered some more subtle adjustments. For example, employees of African-American bookstore Eso Won returned after a year absence with this intriguingly adjusted approach:

“The only difference for us is in our inventory,” said co-owner Tom Hamilton.