LAT Plans to Merge Book Review with Opinions The Los Angeles Times is working on a plan to turn their stand-alone Sunday book review section into a dual-cover tabloid-size section presenting book reviews read from one direction, and opinion columns read from the other direction. LAObserved.com reports on the changes based on sources at the paper. The blog notes: “Some believe the revamp has already received bean-counter approval to launch after the Times Festival of Books in April — it just wouldn’t do to have the rookie publisher and editor jeered at the paper’s biggest (by far) community event.” LAT […]