“The Internet is a landscape of dilettantes and amateurs, those for whom this literary pursuit is not a career but an avocation. Their opinions may well be unsophisticated, but they are also largely unpretentious, honest, and conversational. They are able to build a trust with their readers that print reviewers somehow lost.”
Daniel Pritchard on the proliferation of online book reviewers. Are they as talented as their print-only forebears?
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