Normally among the busiest and best attended public-facing book fairs in Europe, the Feria del Libro de Madrid this year is online in a one-time October time frame.

Among the many changes we’ve reported on in world book fairs this year, the 79th Feria del Libro de Madrid in mid-March did what looked like the right thing and postponed its 2020 evocation to October 2 to 18. The original plan had been for it to run May 29 to June 4, and organizers—by the time London Book Fair had been unable to go forward—saw the pandemic’s handwriting on the wall.

As it has happened, of course, the expected safe remove of four months later in the year has proved not to be safe.

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