Quotes by Jason Epstein - Page 1

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 / Editor
Humanity
Publishing
Collective
Memory
Survive
Test
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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.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Technology
Bookstores
Digital
Disappear
Inventory
Publishers
Exploit
Technologies
Virtual
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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 thin to support major backlist retailers.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Bookstores
Cities
Density
Disappear
Downtown
Population
Support
Begun
Mid
Suburb
Thin
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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 mixes poorly with intimacy.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Candor
Distance
Editors
Intimacy
Patient
Authors
Friendships
Patients
Poorly
Psychiatrists
Requires
Seldom
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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 industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Horse
Ipods
Technological Change
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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 / Editor
Insufficient
Non Fiction
Profit
Publishing
Vocation
Essential
Primary Goal
Reward
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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 delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Available
Cost
Delivery
Irreversible
Revolutionary
Storage
Languages
Click
Decentralized
Practically
Mouse
Radically
World-Wide
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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 book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Book
Hands
Taken
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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 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.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Cards
Cities
Independent
Marketplace
Shops
Thousand
Titles
Towns
World War Ii
War Business World
Carried
Current
Entered
Greeting
Limited
Mostly
Smaller
Stocks
Supplemented
World War
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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 indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Flower
Rest In Peace
Spring
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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 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.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Jealous
Book
Careers
People
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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 of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly... and discussing public question. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all... but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.
Jason Epstein / Editor
Communication
Rights
Views
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