The shrinking of Fairfax Media's books pages: a microstudy of digital disruption

This microstudy of digital disruption in newspapers analyses the book review sections of Fairfax Media's three metropolitan dailies and how they changed between 2013 and 2017, before the newspaper company merged with Nine Entertainment. Through content analysis and interviews, the study documents how the diversity and variety of the books coverage declined steeply after Fairfax management imposed cost-cutting and review sharing on legacy sections.