Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, And Future; Author: Epstein, Jason; Hardback; Book

Author: Epstein, Jason
Hardback; Book
204 pages
Published: March 2001
W.W. Norton & Company Ltd
ISBN: 0393049841

In this book based on his W.W. Norton Lectures given at the New York Public Library in October, 1999, Epstein 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.Jason Epstein's thought-provoking ideas are interspersed with vivid anecdotes from his 50 years in the business. At the age of 23 Jacob Epstein created Anchor Books, establishing the trade paperback format. In the following decated he co-founded the New York Review of Books, and in the 1980s, the Library of America, the forerunner of on-line bookselling. This is his publishing history.