Taken from 'Less Reading More Smoozing at London Book Fair' The New York Times, April 18th 2007.
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LONDON, April 17 — You might be forgiven for thinking that the London Book Fair is about books and authors — and of course in a sense it is. It is just that few books and even fewer authors are seen here.
Rather, with the public excluded from the fair’s site, the hangarlike spaces of Earls Court One in west London, thousands of book editors, agents and scouts are able to indulge in their favorite pastime: schmoozing.
