"The marketplace for books when I entered the……" — Jason Epstein
"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 major towns and cities supplemented by thousands of smaller shops that carried limited stocks of mostly current titles along with greeting cards, toys and so on."
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10 Quotes by Jason Epstein
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A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human…
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You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage…
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Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of…
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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,…
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Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent…
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Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance:…
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By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb…
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The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically…
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Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers…
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