Booksellers speak out: the fall season sucks

The Southeastern Booksellers’ Association — which is changing its name — reports that booksellers are vastly underwhelmed by the fall season’s offerings:

On the trade show floor, most exhibitors termed the bookseller traffic

slow, while booksellers often reported not finding any major books,

except for Widow of the South, to spark sales during the holidays.

Now, this is a regional trade show, and they can only go by the galleys and finished copies they already have, but they don’t think people will shell out oodles of money for the next Scott Turow, Sue Grafton and Thomas Harris books, all which will hit stores before the end of the year?

And surely all of you who hang out in the backblogs can offer suggestions as to what booksellers could push for the holiday season?