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Book Business

Publishing Past, Present, and Future

By Jason Epstein

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| Paperback | 9780393322347

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Book Description

Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review of Books, and created of the Library of America, the prestigious publisher of American Continue

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Long live the codex

Jason Epstein’s imagination stretches from primeval man, arranging ‘meaningful phonemes to the beat of stone upon stone or to the sound of hollowed logs used as drums’, to the impact on book business, eons hence, of ‘the global village green . . . un ... (read full critics)

lrb published on Sun, 5 Sep 2010

Book Business

"The rumors of my death," wrote Mark Twain in a letter to a paper that had published his obituary, "have been greatly exaggerated." To those who have pronounced both books and publishing dead due the combined advance of technology and the influence o ... (read full critics)

asianreviewofbooks published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

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1 Review

Read only a part of the book as I am interested in the author's prediction on the future of book market.
Most contents are about the history of the US publishing market.
Like the tone of the author, smooth flow.

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