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 of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.
Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationshi… - 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
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people… - Jason Epstein
Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people…
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers… - Jason Epstein
Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers…
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
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…
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
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…
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human n… - Jason Epstein
A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human n…
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
Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, a…
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
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…
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