Steven Schuyler reports on the Boston ABAA Fair. Some money quotes:
“But the ‘elephant in the room,’ to use a good American expression, was the economy, which presented itself, as one colleague called it, as a ‘cloud of caution’ over the book fair.”
And…
“The gap in value between truly uncommon material and the commonplace item is widening.”
Not to mention…
“[William Reese] was concerned about a lack of young DEALERS. ‘This business takes too long to learn, to become accomplished. I don’t see enough young, well educated bookish people going into the business as first careers these days. It requires too much experience to tackle as a ‘second career.””