Today the Dining section is ending the blog in order to consolidate all of our food coverage on the main Dining page, creating a single destination for readers.
Meant primarily as a destination for readers, visitors can also purchase books on the site directly from the publishers through bookish.com or other retailers if they'd like.
The publishers — Simon & Schuster, Penguin Group USA and Hachette Book Group — hope the site will become a catch-all destination for readers in the way that music lovers visit Pitchfork.com for reviews and information.
Kindle, on the other hand, is more a regular destination for readers — at least those who are not "real book" purists who prefer flipping actual pages to virtual ones.
Byline's team wants the platform to become a destination for readers, in and of itself, not just a crowdfunding website — which Tudor argues sets it apart from Beacon.
The decision to start the club comes at a time when memberships in book clubs have plummeted as Internet destinations for readers offer the same kind of discounts and recommendations.
Sites like Google, which don't produce any journalism of their own, have made themselves into destinations for readers by successfully organizing the work of others and selling advertising against it.
"We're building more of a destination site for readers".
"It will fast become a destination for our readers with Frank at the keyboard".
This, for some reason, is perhaps the most popular destination among our readers so far.
