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title: 'The Return of the Review'
date: '2007-10-15T11:15:12-04:00'
permalink: /the-return-of-the-review/
tags:
    - publishing
    - reading
---

The other thing I’ve been meaning to post about: my friend Bill Tipper has for the last several months been overseeing the rebirth of editorial content at Barnes & Noble online, in the form of the new [Barnes & Noble Review](http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/), an editorially-independent book review of the sort that has of late been disappearing from most major newspapers.

This is particularly exciting to me for two reasons: first, because my last job during grad school was as a reviewer for the early Barnes & Noble website, before the competition they were facing from Amazon led them to eschew the editorial in favor of the marketing; I’ve felt for years that they’d made the wrong choice, that readers might be led to make purchases through B&N rather than Amazon if they focused on original content rather than neutral, database-driven volume.

And second, because I’ve got a review up there today, of [Daniel Solove’s *The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet*](http://www.barnesandnoble.com/bn-review/review.asp?PID=19832&z=y&cds2Pid=17617&linkid=1029500). It’s awfully nice to get back to a bit of mainstream book-reviewing; I hadn’t realized how much I’d missed it.