At the annual BookExpo, it’s all digital all the time
NEW YORK — In the pre-digital and bookstore chain era, this trade show used to be called the American Booksellers Convention. Now it goes by the name BookExpo America, but the focus is still on selling books. Only the delivery system has changed. At the first day of the BookExpo at the Jacob Javits Convention Center here, the transcendence of the electronic book appeared complete.
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