Great Regulars: "There's a benefit to slowness,"

said Joe Donnelly, co-editor of Slake, a new Los Angeles-based literary magazine whose first issue ran 232 glossy pages and is focused on long-form writing. "We want to produce something that will linger, to publish in a way that's made to last."

Mainstream publishers say printed books are far from extinct.

from David L. Ulin: Los Angeles Times: Making books do things e-books can't--and vice versa

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