OKay book... But possibly a bit too "inside" in a way. Abramson was the Editor in Chief at the NY Times for part of the period this book covers... So there's a bit of a conflict there. Not to mention that all of the publications that she chooses to cover are on the East coast.

Would have been better if she had decided to follow a different paper, say the L.A. Times instead of the NY Times.

Then there is a side of this story that is missed.... At one point Abramson addresses the differences between the first and second attempts by the Times to implement a paywall. While her opinion is okay, it's definitely not complete. She does identify the iPhone as one difference, there were definitely bigger ones... For example Amazon Prime, Netflix and Spotify all happened between the two attempts to paywall their content... Meaning that the second time having a subscription service was more accepted.

I think this book could have been improved by following the changes in technologies throughout the whole timeline. It would have brought a lot of the issues and changes into better focus.