Article on the decline of book coverage

Cheryl Reed, my editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, has an excellent article in the paper today about the decline in book coverage. I don't have much hope that all the attention this subject has been getting recently will make much difference. However, at least one newspaper executive still gets it.

Reed writes:

Concerned about the security of the book pages here, I asked Sun-Times Publisher John Cruickshank, a bibliophile and frequent reviewer in these pages, whether there were plans to cut books coverage here. His response: "The Opinion and Books sections of the paper have never attracted much advertising, but they are at the core of any paper's identity and the engagement a paper has with its community. We are committed to these sections because they are integral to the basic character of the Chicago Sun-Times."

Comments

[Janine]

This makes me want to subscribe to the Chicago Sun-Times!

[Eoin]

I am an independent writer and journalist. I find this trend unsurprising but very sad all the same. As the excellent article states, it is poor foresight on the part of newspapers. It seems that every year there is a new threat to the very existence of books. How ironic would it be, though, that after all the predictions about the Internet killing the novel, that it was finished off by newspapers instead? Thank you to John Cruickshank and the Sun-Times for sticking up for readers and writers everywhere.

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