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Jun 27 2008
Publishers Weekly reports that tough times in
the newspaper industry could spell more trouble for print book review
sections. On Thursday the Wall Street Journal reported that Sam Zell,
the new owner of the Tribune Company, would likely try to sell the buildings
that two of the chain's marquee papers--the Chicago Tribune and the
L.A. Times--now occupy. The move, to cash in on highly valued properties in
an attempt to ease the company's financial woes, comes after two Tribune-owned
papers, The Hartford Courant and the Baltimore Sun,
announced significant staff reductions in their newsrooms.
Amid the pending real estate sale and newsroom cutbacks, rumors have surfaced
about book sections being cut at Tribune-owned papers. For nearly eight years
book review sections have been steadily getting thinner or dropped altogether
with cuts at The San Francisco Chronicle, The Atlanta
Journal-Constitution, The Dallas Morning News, The
Tribune, The L.A. Times, and many mid-sized regional
papers.
A few books well chosen, and well made use of, will be more profitable than a great confused Alexandrian library.
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