Chicago Books section is moving!
I was shocked and a little dismayed last Sunday when I opened up my Sunday edition of the Chicago Tribune to learn that they are moving the Books Section to the Saturday paper. This is bad news for me because I only subscribe to the Sunday Edition, in part, to save paper, as I get most of my daily news online – but also because I enjoy the Sunday paper the most.
My first reaction was that this is the first step the Tribune is taking to cut the Books section out altogether. This probably wouldn’t surprise many of you. As the decline of print newspapers has been steadily declining over the years, guess what gets cut first (hint: it’s not the Sports section!). We in Chicago are lucky, as we have one of only a handfull stand-alone Book sections left in the country; most have been tacked on to the back of the Arts section.
Hopefully the move to the Saturday paper is the worst for Chicago. By all accounts, it appears that the Tribune will actually be expanding the Books section! Here’s an excerpt from the Chicago Tribune website:
Faithful readers will recognize freshened features of the section. With the switch to Saturday, we will also usher in a new era of the Tribune’s coverage of books, expanding our coverage of books, ideas and the written word throughout the newspaper and across the week.
Read the entire article here: Books is moving
Let’s just hope they’re right and do expand Books. Am I going to now subscribe to Saturday’s paper now? Probably not. I’ll just have to get my weekly literary fix somewhere else.
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