Book business : publishing past, present, and future / by Jason Epstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Jason.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Publishers and publishing--History--20th century.

Publishers and publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Forecasting.

Epstein, Jason.

History.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xx, 204 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : W.W. Norton, [2002]

Summary:

Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. He founded Anchor Books and thereby launched the quality paperback revolution, cofounded the New York Review of Books, and created the Library of America, the prestigious publisher of American classics, and The Reader's Catalog, the precursor of online bookselling.

In this book he discusses the severe crisis facing the book business today -- a crisis that affects writers and readers as well as publishers -- and looks ahead to the radically transformed industry that will revolutionize the idea of the book as profoundly as the introduction of movable type did five centuries ago.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Rattle of Pebbles 1

Chapter 2 Young Man from the Provinces 39

Chapter 3 Lost Illusions 69

Chapter 4 Goodbye to All That 93

Chapter 5 Culture Wars 111

Chapter 6 Groves of Academe 125

Chapter 7 Modern Times 143.

Notes:

"First published as a Norton paperback 2002" -- verso of t.p.

Includes index.

ISBN:

0393322343

OCLC:

50540997