When the San Diego Union Tribune laid off its arts and books critic, local independent bookstores despaired about the lack of book coverage. And then they came up with a creative solution.
“Now several San Diego-area booksellers – Warwick's, Mysterious Galaxy, The Book Works, and The Yellow Book Road – are partnering with the Union Tribune (UT) to provide the content themselves.”
Read more here. [Full disclosure: as a freelance reviewer for the Oregonian, I hope it doesn’t come to that here.]