The Los Angeles Times plans to kill its Sunday Book Review section and fold any surviving reviews into the paper’s Sunday Calendar section, Editor & Publisher and other publications have reported. Four former editors of the section have released a letter explaining how they believe the decision will hurt the city and others, which you can read here www.laobserved.com/archive/2008/07/book_editors_protest_cuts.php. This letter is one of many such laments for the demise of book review sections that have appeared recently, but it is unusually blunt, intelligent and authoritative.
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Thanks for reporting on this. The situation at the L.A. Times is disheartening.
Comment by sarahsk — July 25, 2008 @ 4:27 pm |
It is. The paper recently has beefed up its online book-review content, so perhaps there’s hope for more expansion there.
Comment by 1minutebookreviewswordpresscom — July 25, 2008 @ 5:29 pm |