A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human n…

- Jason Epstein

Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people…

- Jason Epstein

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers…

- Jason Epstein

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 indeed rest in peac…

- Jason Epstein

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was t…

- Jason Epstein

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationshi…

- Jason Epstein

Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, a…

- Jason Epstein

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 of mind, have bee…

- Jason Epstein