Seattle’s Bookfest On The Chopping Block?

Seattle’s Bookfest saw attendance this drop to 9000 this year – less than half its regular number, after the festival instituted a $10 ticket fee. Now organizers are pondering whether this is the end for the 13-year-old event. “Bookfest’s continuing travails may seem surprising in a city that boasts one of the country’s most active book cultures. But Seattle’s prominence as a book town has been a blessing and a curse for Bookfest.”