Zoetrope friend Laila Lalami is mentioned in a USA Today (2/16) piece about literary blogs.
The explosion of blogging among book lovers
corresponds with a general rise in the use of blogs among the computer
literate. A recent study by the Pew Foundation finds that 8 million
people have created blogs, a 58% jump in the past year, and about 25%
of all Internet users read them.
The online book media have grown so much that Publishers Weekly,
the book industry’s primary trade magazine, recently replaced its
editor in chief of 12 years, citing the need to revamp the magazine in
light of such competition and to tap into the public’s interest in
reading about books online.What many blogs do better than the conventional print media is offer a sense of the global literary culture by providing links to foreign book coverage.
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