- Simon Trewin: “After the terrible experiences of the 2006 London Book Fair at ExCel in Docklands where nothing seemed to go right at all it was a joy to return to West London for what many attendees agree was the best fair ever.”
- Macmillan president Richard Charkin‘s two dispatches are colorful and detail-laden but most notable for the following observation: “. My back-of-an-envelope calculations suggest that the elimination of all trade book fairs (LBF, BEA, Bologna, Delhi, Guadalajara, Tokyo, Cape Town etc) might reduce total industry costs by several billion dollars.” Makes more that “just a boy” think…
- Ali Karim describes the peculiar sensation of meeting Dean Koontz via the LongPen. Karim also provided the video at the top of this post (along with other video captures of John Banville‘s noir panel.)
- Kerraway reports on a new website launched by Spanish publishers at LBF.
- The Guardian’s Tania Kindersley yawns over Yet Another Dying Book panel.
- Aaron Harnly is excited that Rivka Galchen is getting a major LBF push.
- Ecademy Press has been blogging and taking pictures from stand R700 at LBF.
- Simon Quicke spent an hour at the fair and concludes “publishing as an industry is alive and well but there could have been more of a British presence,” not to mention “a little bit of a reality and hype gap at work” with regards to technology impact.
- More LBF coverage from Off the Page’s Andrew Hayward.
- And finally, zombies! Emma Barnes at Snowbooks has more, plus additional LBF coverage.