Bigger Book Bashes
Decatur Metro | June 24, 2009A little Decatur Book Festival Trivia for you this morning.
If you’re like me and love the Decatur Book Festival, but aren’t necessarily a connoisseur of these bound word extravaganzas, you may also have wondered, if Decatur is the largest INDEPENDENT festival, what are the largest overall regardless of dependence?
I posed this question to DBF self-described crackpot Daren Wang, who replied..
The other three are LA Times, Miami, and the National. We’re probably tied for 4th with Printers Row. [I added the links]
Those three are owned and operated by the Tribune Company, Miami Dade College, and the Federal Government, respectively. That’s why we call ourselves the largest independent–we’re just a couple of crackpots with an idea.LA and Miami are both in the 150,000 to 200,000 range. I’m not sure about National, but that is a one day event on the mall in Washington.