They announced this a couple of weeks ago, and presumably the San Francisco Chronicle is only the first of what will be many outlets offering some variation on The E-Reader: reviews of e-books.
As John McMurtrie explains there:
(I still struggle mightily with writing reviews based on e-formatted books; I recently did review one title but it was a painful experience; the total number of titles reviewed at the complete review based on e-formatted texts can still (just) be counted on one hand. What I would give for everything to be printed and available in mass-market paperback size, sigh ......)
As John McMurtrie explains there:
Without diminishing The Chronicle's longtime coverage of print books, we feel it's important to recognize new formats in book publishing. And so today the Books section inaugurates the E-Reader, a monthly column devoted to e-books. Many print books, of course, are simultaneously published electronically, but the column will focus on titles that are available solely as e-books.Liz Colville is handling the duties (like mystery or other genre-review sections in newspapers, they've oddly decided one reviewer can handle the entire e-variety ...), and here's her column this week: Reviews of e-books, Sept. 2.
(I still struggle mightily with writing reviews based on e-formatted books; I recently did review one title but it was a painful experience; the total number of titles reviewed at the complete review based on e-formatted texts can still (just) be counted on one hand. What I would give for everything to be printed and available in mass-market paperback size, sigh ......)