They have a new editor so what's coming?
From a piece on the Daily Beast...
Are you worried about the future of books?
No,
because fundamentally people love stories and they want information,
and a book, to my mind, is still one of the best ways to tell stories
and deliver information and I don’t think it’s going anywhere. I think
that’s part of human nature.
As
a longtime fan of the Book Review, the one criticism I would offer is
there are times, reading from Berlin or California, when it has seemed
to me a little too focused on the tastes of people in Manhattan. To what
extent are you looking to address a New York readership and to what
extent are you looking to a national readership?
We’re
a national newspaper now and that’s even more so with the Book Review,
because we are the last freestanding book review section in the country,
so I definitely consider our audience not only to be national but
global. Just as we read The Guardian here at the Review, we have a
readership in other countries. There are so many books that are
conceived on a global way in the same way that’s happened in the film
industry. We have an international audience. There are a lot of people
who are interested in books in English who live all over the world, and
we want to address them as well.
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