The primary goal of publishing general fiction and non-fiction was never profit - though profit was essential to stay in the game. Publishing is a vocation in which the work is its own reward, an insufficient goal for today's conglomerates. — 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
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