The book industry stands at the edge of a historic transformation. Jason Epstein tells us what the future holds. Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. In 1952 he created Anchor Books, which launched the so-called quality paperback revolution and established the trade paperback format. In the following decade he was co-founder of the New York Review of Books. In the 1980s he created The Library of America and The Reader's Catalog, the precursor of on-line ...
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The book industry stands at the edge of a historic transformation. Jason Epstein tells us what the future holds. Jason Epstein has led arguably the most creative career in book publishing during the past half-century. In 1952 he created Anchor Books, which launched the so-called quality paperback revolution and established the trade paperback format. In the following decade he was co-founder of the New York Review of Books. In the 1980s he created The Library of America and The Reader's Catalog, the precursor of on-line bookselling. In this short book, based on his W.W. Norton Lectures given at the New York Public Library in October 1999, 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.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Good condition few stains on inside pages from previous use. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 188 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
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Good. Good condition. Good dust jacket. A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Good/Good. . Hardcover, good condition, w. ltly to smwht slanted, smwht compressed sp, v. ltly bumped corners. Sme wear on brd bottoms. Lt color leakage around sp base. Ltly tanned p. edges. Creaky fr hinge. Lge stain on lower fr eps nr sp. Simlar stains on r. eps, a few pp. Sme pp. ltly rippled at bottom. O/w tight and unmarked. Dj good, ltly rubbed, sme lt mark. Lt stain on r., sme color leakage. Lge stain, color leakage, on lower ins.
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Good. No dust jacket. SOFTCOVER CONDITION GOOD-UNCORRECTED PROOF EDITION. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 188 p. Audience: General/trade. The author reconstructs the history of publishing, providing insights into the techniques and business of the creating, marketing, and selling books
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Like New in Fine jacket. Size: 5x1x8; As editor-publisher to some of the 20th-century's greatest writers (Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Jane Jacobs) as well as the virtual inventor of the trade paperback (meaning the "quality" type, as opposed to the drugstore mass-market), Jason Epstein is one of those rare publishing-world types who is as invested in the editorial creation of a good book as in its marketing and sales. It is that dual perspective that has guided his half-century-long publishing career and that makes this compact yet expansive professional memoir such a lively, illuminating read for anyone curious how current trade publishing--basically popular general-interest fiction and nonfiction--became obsessed with a narrow pool of quickie bestsellers to the neglect of the far greater mass of slow-burners (known in the biz as "midlist") or of the perennial sellers from years past ("backlist"). But, Epstein follows up with great enthusiasm, the time is not long before the book biz will morph into a new cyberversion of the quirky, intimate "cottage industry" that it was in its precorporate era.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book. Inscribed by Author(s) Hardbound in dust jacket. Signed & inscribed by Jason Epstein to the previous owner on the front free end page. 1st edition.
