March 11, 2010

New York Times Book Review going digital

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America’s last stand-alone book Sunday book review section is going digital: According to a report by Damon Kiesow at Poynter Online, “The New York Times is planning to offer its Book Review as a separate digital e-reader product, disaggregated from the rest of the Times content on the mobile devices.”

According to the report, “the Times will introduce a separate version of its Book Review for three e-reader platforms, beginning with the Sony e-reader in the next couple of weeks. Versions for Amazon’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble’s Nook will follow. [A Times spokesman] declined to say what the price will be for the Book Review on these platforms.”

Dennis Johnson is the founder of MobyLives, and the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.

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