Newspaper Book Reviewers = Dodo Birds?

Recently, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (based, obviously, in the city of Atlanta, which is 15th in the University of Wisconsin’s rankings of "most literate cities in the U.S") fired its Book Review Editor.

Subsequently, concerned readers and writers set up an online petition to Help Protect Atlanta's Book Review, arguing, among other points, that, "If the major newspaper in a major market like Atlanta lacks a book section, then we may soon be missing authors, too, when publishers decide not to send their writers to a city where the primary forum of ideas and review is ignoring them."

Also, the National Book Critics Circle has launched a Campaign to Save Book Reviews.

Meanwhile, the New York Times suggests that book reviews aren't actually dying; they're just moving out of print and into the blogosphere.

Anybody care?