Alas, poor computer media…
LJ is cutting my “Computer Media” book review column; October’s will be the last. So long, and thanks for reading! 
Since this leaves a gaping hole in the review literature, I’m thinking of starting a new computer book review blog for librarians. To this end, if you purchase computer books for your patrons, please do me a favor and take this short survey on whether this sort of thing might be useful to you, and what you’d like to see there. (This is a little free SurveyMonkey survey limited to 100 respondents.)
librarybob:
I decided I couldn’t finish the survey because I’m not actually a selector … but I do think “professional book review blogs” are important if we’re to get past the existing information bottleneck.
One hard part, I suppose, comes from vetting the reviewers but this is important. Amazon.com (etc.) allows anyone to post a review and there’s no way to distinguish the accurate review from one by the author’s spouse.
A second would be getting review copies, but maybe not that hard a task once publishers understand that the reviewers have been vetted.
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