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Did anyone go to Bookcon this weekend in NYC?
As a consumer? I missed it, even though I'd been thinking about going since last year's event. I'm so bummed! Make me (more) jealous - how was it?
Re: Did anyone go to Bookcon this weekend in NYC?
I didn't think it was as good as past years. They didn't let people with BookCon passes onto the whole BEA exhibit floor, which was a change, and resulted in way too many people shoved in way too small an area. And their crowd control was crap - some of the more popular author signings/panels were near riots.
We did get some fun books but I wouldn't go to BookCon again.
Kate's Recipe Box || Relatively Bookish
It really was a little scary. Libba Bray was one of the few big names doing an unticketed signing and I walked away from that side of the floor at one point because the crowd was just screaming at the staff. They seemed completely unprepared for the number of people that showed up.
It also felt like a really different crowd of people - probably because how they marketed it. In the past it felt more like librarians/wannabe librarians/avid book lovers - so even when there were crowds, they were pretty polite crowds. Like, my first year this was a big ARC drop at a booth that got mobbed and grabbed up pretty fast. The result was people stood around handing out their emails so the people who got ARCs could pass them on after they read them.This year, it was a lot more young teens and people that were hell-bent on seeing whatever big name they came for. I was really unprepared for the entitled attitudes and out-and-out yelling that I saw this year.
Kate's Recipe Box || Relatively Bookish
I would absolutely say go to BEA if you can go as a librarian or blogger. The experience is so much different. I'd do BEA again in a heartbeat - just not the BookCon side of things.
Kate's Recipe Box || Relatively Bookish
Kate's Recipe Box || Relatively Bookish