Following this post earlier today on a good report in BookBrunch on the state of literary criticism and book promotion, I am sad to see the news in The Bookseller that Suzi Feay - the Independent on Sunday's Literary Editor - has been made redundant. This follows a similar contraction at the Daily Telegraph in December 2008. Are our newspapers slowly giving up on bringing us news of new books?
Following the sale of London's Evening Standard to a Russian oligarch, the future of The Independent as a whole has been questioned.
We live in changing times.
The Saturday Times lost its dedicated Books supplement 3 Saturdays ago - to no reaction that I read on the Internet, but I was upset. Books has now been relegated to a few pages at the mack of a broadsheet "review" section - this week, for example, no crime/thrillers reviewed. Very sad.
Posted by: Maxine | 08 February 2009 at 12:37