more bad news for books

[ellen_datlow]

The rumours from the past week re: The Washington Post Book World were true:
the WASHINGTON POST has today announced that as of 22 February, 'Book
World' will cease to exist as a separate entity, and will instead be
incorporated into the 'Outlook' and 'Style' sections. This means that
while the POST will continue reviewing new titles, the total number -
currently some 900 books a year - will decrease. Pulitzer Prize winning critic Michael Dirda's column will still be run in the Style section.
links here Media Bistro and here Washington Business Journal

Comments

[foresthouse.livejournal.com]

I am sad about this. :( I liked having it as a separate entity. Oh well...guess we have to roll with the times.

[mallory-blog.livejournal.com]

YIKES!!!

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Argh. They just took away another Sunday section a couple months ago, and combined two Sunday sections a year or so ago. Now they're demanding that I pay them "on notice" when that would be three weeks early. They're really having trouble.

[inf-matrix.livejournal.com]

I suppose the Style section makes sense. As they say, books _do_ furnish a room.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Ah, except that it's the Style and Arts section -- they combined those a while back. My guess is that Style & Arts will get fiction and Outlook will get non-fiction.

book review space

[lisatuttle.livejournal.com]

The Times (talking about London here), after swimming against the tide by launching a separate Saturday Books section two years ago (more or less), changed this past Saturday (24 Jan) to incorporating book coverage in a general Review section. The first one seems to have the same amount of reviews as in the Books section, but then it would, since those were already all scheduled to go. The weeks to come will tell what it really means. (And I'll be reviewing SF/fantasy only every OTHER month instead ofmonthly. Taking turns with poetry...hmmm....)

Re: book review space

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that. It sucks.