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The Literary Ecosystem Is Dying (www.theatlantic.com)

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[–] limer@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 days ago

Honestly feel like the end of syndicated book reviews is not that bad. I have often thought that there is a selection process about the type of reviewer who gets the big press, and usually I am diametrically opposed to them in so many ways.

I was always an outsider to that sort of institutional and emotionally stunted world