Thursday, March 31, 2011

A Dinosaur in the making!

I happened across the homepage for Kirkus Reviews this morning.
I think it is a good time to elect someone to start working on a eulogy for this fixture of what the publishing world was.
All one has to do is study the list of the works they refuse to review and it is clear that they don't realize the boat has sailed on without them.
The list of what they refuse to review follows:

already published books
mass-market titles
self-published titles
reprints
print-on-demand titles
screenplays or other types of dramatic works
poetry
textbooks
technical or professional works
any work intended for an academic audience
reference books
instruction manuals
books of regional interest
computer & technology handbooks handbooks

leaves one to wonder what they do , do over there.

Probably reading the same twelve authors Borders carried on their shelves, and the James Patterson book of the month.