Small Press Book Fair spat deteriorates

The old joke is: Why are fights at university faculty meetings so vicious? Because the stakes are so small.

This is apparently the case concerning the Toronto Small Press Book Fair, an event that in recent years has provided an outlet for a good many specialty and smaller magazine publishers. An earlier post reported on what at the time appeared to be a transitory spat between the current organizers and one of the participants and a founder of the fair. Well, according to a posting on the Quillblog (from Quill & Quire magazine), things have deteriorated in the way things can only when lawyering is threatened...