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If you’re curious, do it!

Positive – you’ll get a vibe for how the business works. You may come away with a few new ideas and possibly (tho not guaranteed) a contact or two.

Negative – book trade events such as this and others (e.g. FutureBook, that may well be on its last legs) tend to be platforms for the speakers’ own self-promotion. Take everything with a few grains of salt. Everyone is selling something there.

But it’s not wildly expensive. If it were a thousand quid or so, I’d really question its value. But for a hundred quid for four days, it’s not exorbitant.
 
If you’re curious, do it!

Positive – you’ll get a vibe for how the business works. You may come away with a few new ideas and possibly (tho not guaranteed) a contact or two.

Negative – book trade events such as this and others (e.g. FutureBook, that may well be on its last legs) tend to be platforms for the speakers’ own self-promotion. Take everything with a few grains of salt. Everyone is selling something there.

But it’s not wildly expensive. If it were a thousand quid or so, I’d really question its value. But for a hundred quid for four days, it’s not exorbitant.
Thank you for your quick reply. One of the speakers was actually my mentor in a residency a few years ago. So that's one contact I know!
 
This sounds great! A hundred pounds, an off-season flight, and a rare use of my lifetime HI/YHA membership (even cheaper if my in-laws put me up, but I wouldn't hold my breath). And not much more expensive than that NYC food-writers event I attended last Fall and much more varied and interesting.

Maybe?
 

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