Tina Brown Discusses The Book Beast: 'It's Really Important to Support Books' - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY

Tina Brown Discusses The Book Beast: 'It's Really Important to Support Books' - mediabistro.com: FishbowlNY: "Anyone one with even a passing interest in books is by now painfully aware of the struggles the publishing industry is currently undergoing. Troubles came to a head last December when widespread layoffs were announced at both Random House and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (which had already ceased accepting manuscripts). Meanwhile, book sections nation-wide have consistently been the early casualties of newspaper cutbacks — another one fell last week with the announcement that the Washington Post Book World would cease to exist as a stand-alone publication.

Enter Tina Brown, who just this week announced the addition of the Book Beast page to her recently-launched website The Daily Beast."