By: Steve

I spoke to several people who were at the DBF. For the most part, they know that the venues for popular authors are going to fill and plan for it. If they didn’t get in, they generally accepted that but they were able to see others that they wanted and were overall happy that they had come. I’m sure there were some folks upset that they didn’t get the experience they wanted, but I didn’t talk to any. IMHO, one of the really attractive aspects of DBF both for participants and attendees is that it is a community festival, not one in a convention center somewhere. An Atlanta Book Festival at the World Congress Center wouldn’t have the same ambience and I don’t think the same popularity (I think someone told me that was tried once anyway).