Face To Face – Losing The Literary Lunch

“Lunch is to publishing as liquidity is to banking. The book world is in full-blown transition. Blogs are rampant; Google is digitising every text going; e-readers are transforming the experience of reading. Books (and book reviewing) have been pushed to the margin. It doesn’t help that in a global recession publishing is also feeling the pinch.” So is the Lit-Lunch kaput?