Wow, I do love that the New York Times is thinking about liblogs, but why they set them up in opposition to books reviews is baffling. Newspaper book review sections are suffering cutbacks because newspapers are suffering cutbacks.
Why do publishers want to cut the book pages? Are there not enough ads? Do they have ad managers to work with publishers? Are publishers not buying ads because they don’t sell enough books? Why don’t people buy enough books?
I haven’t had my coffee yet, but it seems clear to me that litblogs are part of the solution, not the problem.
Speaking of delicious goodness in the litblog world, please check out the LBC, where we’re discussing Cottagers by Marshall Klimasewiski this week.
Litblogging is fantastic, we know. But how can litbloggin affect effect?
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