Books and newspapers are important objects of knowledge, which shape our way of understanding the world. Driven by the advancement of digital technologies and by the increase in competition for the advertising fraction, a press crisis is currently identified – drawing attention to the disruption of the journalism business model, occurred in the context of what César Bolano calls the Third Industrial Revolution. Newsrooms reduction, functions accumulation and pressure for immediate publications on platforms and social media are a recurring reality. How will good quality journalism be produced in such a conjuncture of financial difficulties of the traditional newsrooms and scarce time to deepen the writing? Different possibilities are being considered. Here, we propose to think about one of these attempts that, despite not having originated in this context, finds space in this scenario: the book-report. In this work we try to understand if the book-report would be a way of maintaining quality journalism or if it is just another possibility of journalism. We adopted two main methodological procedures: bibliographic review and in-depth interviews, carried out with four journalist-authors and one author of a reporter s book. Our main bibliographic references were Pereira Lima, pioneer in studies on book-reports in Brazil; Zarate Maciel, whose main research subarea is the book-report; and Catalão Jr. This dissertation notes the lack of time, in daily newsrooms, for the production of in-depth and contextualized reports, which finds space in the book-report. This format, however, presents its own obstacles, of which we highlight the meager financial return.