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Jason Epstein's Profile

Brief about Jason Epstein: By info that we know Jason Epstein was born at 1928-01-26. And also Jason Epstein is American Editor.

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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.

Tags: Book, Time, True

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

Tags: Become, Perhaps, Themselves

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.

Tags: City, Great, Support

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.

Tags: Deep, Keep, Reason

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.

Tags: After, Business, War

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.

Tags: Game, Today, Work

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.

Tags: Books, Old, Process
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