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Washington Post to Drop Book World

January 29, 2009
By Michael Cader

As the NBCC first reported on their blog, the Washington Post will drop its standalone book review section: “The last issue of Book World in print will be the February 15, 2009 issue. Thereafter, content will be split between the Outlook section and Style & Arts on Sundays. Daily book reviews in Style will continue. […]

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Horn Book Sold

January 21, 2009
By Michael Cader

The Horn Book, Inc.–the Boston-based publisher of The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide, which review over 4,000 children’s books annually–has been acquired by Ohio’s Media Source, best-known for their Junior Library Guild review and selection service for children’s and YA books. Horn Book will continue to run editorial operations from their Boston […]

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Free Books, As Long As You Blog

October 28, 2008
By Michael Cader

Thomas Nelson has launched a formal program to enroll interested bloggers and provide them with free review copies of “select titles” in exchange for the promise of a posting of a review of at least 200 words on a blog and at Amazon.com. Nelson ceo and active blogger Mike Hyatt credits his own blog with […]

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Another Chronicle Book Editor to Leave

September 24, 2008
By Michael Cader

Regan McMahon, who took over as books editor at the San Francisco Chronicle when Oscar Villalon took a buyout, is now also take a buyout and leaving the paper. “When SF Weekly contacted McMahon Monday morning, she said people in the publishing world didn’t know about her imminent departure, and she feared that once they […]

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Issues of the Week: Reviews & Blogs, Again

August 1, 2008
By Michael Cader

The quickening dissection and/or disappearance of newspaper book reviews (and newspaper book-focused staff) produced a couple of pieces of commentary this week. First Da Capo senior director of publicity Lissa Warren wrote at the Huffington Post on “will blogs save books?” She criticizes blog coverage of books with a broad brush for, well, not being […]

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Former Editors of Los Angeles Times Book Review Protest Paper's Decision to End Weekly Section

July 22, 2008
By Michael Macrone

Steve Wasserman e-mailed this letter, also signed by Sonja Bolle, Digby Diehl, and Jack Miles: As former editors of the Los Angeles Times Book Review (1975 through 2005), we are dismayed and troubled at the decision by Sam Zell and his managers to cease publishing the paper’s Sunday Book Review. This step signals the end […]

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