The Washington Post is closing down the print edition of its Book World section – one of the last of the Sunday-paper stand-alone book review supplements. The NY Times Book Review is looking lonelier all the time. Nothing in this blog post suggests the Book Review will go the same route, but the comments raise the question. There's also the predictable "get with the program, the world's moving online" comment, which provokes a nicely sarcastic reply, no doubt from a print journalist.
This article appears in Jan 28 – Feb 3, 2009.
