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One aspect of the festival that’s really taken off this year, said Kahan and Goddard, has been booths rented by independent authors to showcase their work. The festival has sold out its available spaces - more than 40. “We’ve been inundated with independent authors who have taken tables,” said Kahan. “In fact, we have an extensive waiting list.

” All told, according to Goddard, there are “way more” exhibitors than last year, with total booths and sponsor spaces topping 100. The growing numbers make both frontline dynamos hopeful that the Philadelphia Book Festival will eventually expand in the direction of the Miami International Book Fair and Los Angeles Times Book Fair, the country’s two largest events of this kind. Their hundreds of offerings and hundreds of thousands of attendees during multiple days have made them major economic boons to their cities’ economies.

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