Sarah Weinman on Twitter linked to the news that the Los Angeles Review of Books received a $25,000 grant from Amazon.com

The money will be used to help launch the new complete LARB website on April 18, as well as to pay its prestigious roster of contributing editors, columnists and writers from Los Angeles and nationwide.

Based on what I've seen on their temporary website, the LARB will be a serious force in the book review world. (And we need a serious force in the book review world since the New York Times Book Review basically puked on itself and died five years ago.) This is a smart investment on Amazon's part.