Jason Epstein Quotes

• A civilization without retail bookstores is unimaginable. Like shrines and other sacred meeting places, bookstores are essential artifacts of human nature. The feel of a book taken from the shelf and held in the hand is a magical experience, linking writer to reader.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Taken, Hands

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• Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the music industry did not invent the iPod or launch iTunes.

  Jason Epstein

  Horse, Technological Change, Ipods

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• La edición de libros comerciales es, por naturaleza, una industria artesanal, descentralizada, improvisada, personal; la llevan a cabo mejor pequeños grupos de personas con ideas afines, dedicadas a su oficio, celosas de su autonomía, sensibles a las necesidades de los escritores y a los diversos intereses de los lectores. Si el dinero fuera su principal objetivo, estas personas probablemente habrían elegido otras carreras.

  Jason Epstein

  Book, Jealous, Careers

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

  Jason Epstein

  Technology, Bookstores, Inventory

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• You stand now between anarchy and law. The Police have done their duty. Let the jury have the same courage so that the police can indeed rest in peace. The flowers of spring shall bloom upon their graves moistened by the tears of a great city. Outraged and violated law shall be redeemed and in their martyrdom anarchy shall be buried forever.

  Jason Epstein

  Rest In Peace, Spring, Flower

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• Dondequiera que el título de calles y parques puede descansar, que inmemorialmente se han celebrado en fideicomiso para el uso del público y, el tiempo fuera de la mente, se han utilizado para fines de reunión ... y discutir la cuestión pública. Este uso de las calles y lugares públicos ha formado parte, desde la antigüedad, de los privilegios, inmunidades, derechos y libertades de los ciudadanos. El privilegio de un ciudadano de los Estados Unidos de utilizar las calles y los parques para comunicar sus opiniones sobre cuestiones nacionales puede ser regulado en interés de todos... pero no debe, bajo la apariencia de regulación, ser restringido o denegado.

  Jason Epstein

  Communication, Rights, Views

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• 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.

  Jason Epstein

  Cities, Support, Population

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• 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.

  Jason Epstein

  Distance, Editors, Patient

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