The last issue of Book World will appear in its tabloid print version on Feb. 15 but will continue to be published online as a distinct entity.
This conclusion has been bolstered by subsequent findings, although it is still resisted by many who prefer to squeeze a huge array of hominid morphologies from Africa and Asia into this one species more as an issue of book-keeping, it seems, than of biology.
As one reviewer in the Summer 2014 issue of Book Forum wrote, "From our current vantage it's not hard to acknowledge that one of the presiding spirits of early 21st century art is Ray Johnson".
"While communities love their libraries, it was inescapable when we first looked at this in 2012 that user numbers and physical issues of books were falling sharply, while less than half of our 43 libraries accounted for three-quarters of active borrowers," says Gill Heath, Staffordshire council's cabinet member responsible for libraries.
The Times has also issued a number of books with reproductions or reprints of articles and full pages spanning the paper's history.
Several literary journals are published, and small presses issue hundreds of books in Greek and Turkish each year.
Not only does it fail to address the central issues of book stock, closures and opening hours, it amounts to less than £31,000 each if spread between the 131 library authorities.
JB: Does the poet laureate have an obligation to speak out on local issues of book banishment, censorship and attacks on intellectual freedom, and what forums should the poet laureate use to give voice to such concerns?
Correction: April 14 , 2001 Saturday An article in Arts & Ideas last Saturday about the issue of preserving books and newspapers in library collections misspelled the title of the new book on the subject by Nicholson Baker.
But your letter highlights a far bigger and far more pressing issue for me, and it's the issue of "issue books".
