At Book Expo, Anxiety Amid the Chatter.

As the book industry gathered for its annual convention in New York this week, it had plenty to be nervous about: the threat of piracy, the decline of brick-and-mortar stores and the perhaps-too-low price of e-books. There was also the fact that the scandal-ridden Sarah Ferguson, the duchess of York, had been booked as the master of ceremonies for one of the convention's most prominent events. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]