Author name: Kassia Krozser

Not Ready For E-Time: Meyers Ebook Release Delayed

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Last night, I had dinner with the digital team from Harlequin — one of the most, if not the most, forward looking publishers when it comes to migrating to a digital future — and came away feeling positive about the mindset of the industry. Today, I’m feeling like we’ve taken two steps back. The fine folks at Hachette, the parent company of Little, Brown, have decided to delay the ebook release of Stephenie Meyer’s Breaking Dawn until 24 hours after the print edition went on sale.

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On Giving Youth A Chance

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Why is it that teenagers, being hit with puberty, peer groups, youth culture, adolescent growth, the weird world of education, and the oncoming threat of higher education, are expected to become avid readers? Is it a case of “Oh, good, you’ve got five seconds to yourself, read this”? How is that better than throwing a tabloid newspaper at them, and calling it “reading”? Is any old extraneous thing, however irrelevant, OK, if it’s called “literature”? People being driven into a state of terminal time management crisis are hardly likely to become enthusiastic readers. If they’re not interested, why not? Literacy

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Once More With Feeling: The LATBR Publishes Its Last

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Rumor has it that I’m going to be on News Hour with Jim Lehrer tonight. I’ll be talking about the demise of the Los Angeles Times Book Review. Eight minutes isn’t near long enough to cover a topic this broad; it’s barely enough to get started with the conversation. Yesterday was the last day for the dedicated book review, and it makes me sad to know it’s gone, but if you didn’t see it coming, you weren’t paying attention. To blame the Internet for the demise of the LATBR is to address part of the problem. Yes, book lovers are

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