Quote, unquote: Reading books? Can't afford that...

"I guess having a guy on staff who spends most of his time reading was a luxury the paper could no longer afford.”

-- Geoff Pevere, the Toronto Star's books columnist, quoted in Quill & Quire on why after 2 1/2 years he has been taken off the beat and made a general entertainment writer. It apparently marks the end of having a staff books columnist  at The Star (the last one, Philip Marchand, now freelances a book column to the National Post.)