""It had a locked door and you'd walk in and turn the light on, and it was just this wonderful space because it had shelves all the way around and it had this long table for sorting books," Hertzel said. "It had no windows, but you could shut the door and you could just be down there, and it was like a clean, well-lighted space.""
""I don't know why newspapers have done it, and they've done it across the board almost," said Colette Bancroft, former books editor for the Tampa Bay Times, who has witnessed this hollowing out for more than a decade. "I'm not sure why. I have never underst"
Laurie Hertzel recalls a dedicated book room in a Minneapolis newsroom where thousands of advance copies arrived monthly and reviewers had ample space and pages to cover books. The Star Tribune once ran two open Sunday pages for book reviews and added a weekly Tuesday review to match industry release rhythms. The U.S. publishing industry generates about $30 billion annually, yet newspaper book coverage has declined sharply. Major organizations have ended regular book-review offerings and cut staff. Veteran books editors describe a decade-long hollowing out that reduces space for literary coverage and discovery.
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