“Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes. Early in the new century book… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes. — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft,… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
“Yet the extravagant enthusiasm for profit persisted among businessmen. In the spring of 1969 Senator Long [spoke out against] a partisan of the oil… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
What is true for book publishing is true for civilization: the books that survive the test of time are humanity's backlist, our collective memory. — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
“Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is… — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves. — Jason Epstein Copy Share Image
![“Yet the extravagant enthusiasm for profit persisted among businessmen. In the spring of 1969 Senator Long [spoke out against] a partisan of the oil industry...[and] that further taxation of oil profits would be disastrous. Such taxes... would remove "all business inventive and lead to Thursday to…” quote by Jason Epstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c2c/jason-epstein-33609_oil-industry_yet-the-extravagant-enthusiasm-for-profi_498121.jpg)
