Comments on: The further demise of the book review… http://tworavenspress.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/the-further-demise-of-the-book-review/ A blog about life in a small literary publisher ... on a remote Scottish croft Sun, 08 Nov 2009 11:22:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: jeff http://tworavenspress.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/the-further-demise-of-the-book-review/#comment-679 jeff Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:25:07 +0000 http://tworavenspress.wordpress.com/?p=633#comment-679 Of course, there's nothing stopping the professional critics from producing their finely crafted reviews on their own literary blogs.....except that they're unlikely to get paid for doing so. Honestly ... I rarely read book reviews until after I have read a book. The reviewer generally gives away too much information about the book's plot and characters. But maybe that's just me. (Non-fiction is a different matter.) Yet, I do read book reviews of books that I never have any intention of reading completely. For me, that's the most valuable function of book reviews. Of course, that doesn't do publishers any good. Of course, there’s nothing stopping the professional critics from producing their finely crafted reviews on their own literary blogs…..except that they’re unlikely to get paid for doing so.

Honestly … I rarely read book reviews until after I have read a book. The reviewer generally gives away too much information about the book’s plot and characters. But maybe that’s just me. (Non-fiction is a different matter.)

Yet, I do read book reviews of books that I never have any intention of reading completely. For me, that’s the most valuable function of book reviews. Of course, that doesn’t do publishers any good.

]]> By: On the Book Industry and its Byproducts | Better World Books Blog http://tworavenspress.wordpress.com/2008/12/07/the-further-demise-of-the-book-review/#comment-676 On the Book Industry and its Byproducts | Better World Books Blog Mon, 08 Dec 2008 21:50:14 +0000 http://tworavenspress.wordpress.com/?p=633#comment-676 [...] the pond, Two Ravens Press weighs in on the book industry these days: The further demise of the book review is predicted by Robert McCrum in The Observer [...] [...] the pond, Two Ravens Press weighs in on the book industry these days: The further demise of the book review is predicted by Robert McCrum in The Observer [...]

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