There’s No Five-Second Rule at BookExpo

Stuck eating lunch on the Javits floor last weekend because the handful of tables were already occupied? Seth Godin had the same problem, and wonders why. “If something like this happened once a year, you’d probably be a bit forgiving,” he writes. “But this happens every single time the Javits Center hosts a large conference, which, of course, is exactly why the Javits Center exists… to hold large conferences.” Truth be told, I don’t remember ever having to sit on the floor in D.C. last year, although that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen…

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