Jason Epstein Quotes
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A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a…
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You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can…
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Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out…
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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, jealous…
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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…
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Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that…
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The marketplace for books when I entered the business shortly after World War II consisted of a thousand or so well stocked independent booksellers in…
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By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too…
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The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and…
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Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.
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