Farewell, Christian Book Expo, We Barely Knew Thee

It seems that the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association will not reprise the ill-fated CBE. As Marcia Nelson reports in Publishers Weekly, the ECPA is “pulling the plug” on the CBE, and hoping to clean up the quarter-million dollar debt they amassed before diving back in to direct-to-consumer events.

As someone who just co-started a company that specializes in small events (100-300 persons), I’m neither surprised nor worried. There’s still a market for events, but I think the era of mega-events is coming to an end.