The Greensboro News-Record dropped it’s book pages a while back, probably following the lead of other newspapers. No doubt the decision was made by a secret cabal of news editors and producers who hate independent thinkers and truly want to crush reading throughout the country, at least reading outside the approved list. But readers still live in Greensboro. This editorial explains some of the popular demand that brought the book pages back to the newspaper.
More than 150 book clubs are affiliated with the Greensboro Public Library and dozens more operate on their own in dens and living rooms throughout the Triad.
Greensboro’s One City, One Book initiative ranks among the most successful community “read-ins” in the country.
The Barnes & Noble store in Friendly Center is one of the chain’s highest-volume stores in the Southeast.
I doubt this will become a trend. Everyone knows people who read newspapers don’t read or care about books.
That’s an interesting subject Phil. With so many people dropping the paper for the Internet, I wonder how this is effecting how papers market themselves. (i.e. to what ‘market’ they’re aiming at these days)
– I know I’ve dropped the paper (it just about pays for my cable)so, as a book reader, maybe I’m part of the problem. (If problem it is.)