Top Jason Epstein Quotes - Quotesmemo.com

Jason Epstein Biography

Jason Wolkow Epstein (born August 25, 1928) is an American editor and publisher.

Read about Jason Epstein in Wikipedia

Random Authors

Jason Epstein Quotes

Wherever the title of streets and parks may rest, they have immemorially been held in trust for the use of the public and, time out of mind, have been used for purposes of assembly. . . and discussing public question. Such use of the streets and public places has, from ancient times, been a part of the privileges, immunities, rights, liberties of citizens. The privilege of a citizen of the United States to use the streets and parks for communication of views on national questions may be regulated in the interest of all. . . but it must not, in the guise of regulation, be abridged or denied.

Communication, Rights, Views, Privilege, Liberties, States

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

Technology, Bookstores, Inventory, Technologies, Increase, Publishers

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.

Horse, Technological Change, Ipods, Breeders, Ipod, Itunes

Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous of their autonomy, sensitive to the needs of writers and to the diverse interests of readers. If money were their primary goal, these people would probably have chosen other careers.

Book, Jealous, Careers, Craft, Interests

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.

Bloom, Flower, Graves, Jury, Rest In Peace, Spring

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.

Distance, Editors, Patient, Mixes, Requires

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.

Book, Essential, Experience, Hands, Shrines, Taken

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.

Cities, Support, Population, Begun, Bookstores

Charles Willson Peale

Charles Willson Peale

Kyle Gass

Kyle Gass

Brandon Mull

Brandon Mull

Jozsef Mindszenty

Jozsef Mindszenty

Sandy Berger

Sandy Berger

Kyongho

Kyongho

Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Mike Mullane

Mike Mullane

Jeremy Vine

Jeremy Vine

Robert X. Cringely

Robert X. Cringely

Maxx Williams

Maxx Williams

Veronika Skvortsova

Veronika Skvortsova