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	Times emit » Blog Archive » Jason Epstein on Google
		Jason Epstein, whom I blogged earlier this year, has reviewed a number of books in the current New York Review.
		The overall outcome of Epstein’s piece is that book digitisation will not lead to lots of books being read on screen, nor to them being printed out on a4 to sit in awkward, expensive stacks of manuscripts.
		Perhaps unsurprisingly Epstein uses the platform to push his identical vision for the future of books-on-demand, coupled with his startup and its Book Espresso machine.
	www.aptstudio.com /timesemit/2006/10/04/jason-epstein-on-google (560 words)

	Epstein Unbound
		With his peremptory manner, his Jason Robards style (too old to be leading man but ready to upstage all pretenders), and his famous curmudgeonliness, he is, vividly, the old man railing against the fates -- this is a listen-to-me-one-last-time encore.
		Epstein, a legendarily nasty son of a bitch (and this is kind), is not, by a long shot, anywhere near the worst I've met in the book business -- indeed, we shortly discover that we both carry around much the same list of loathsome and incompetent sons of bitches.
		Epstein, if possible, is even more sweeping than I am in his condemnation of the men and women who manage the business.
	www.newyorkmetro.com /nymetro/news/media/columns/medialife/1299 (1380 words)

	Columbia College Today
		He believes that new technology promises to restore something of the risk-taking and innovation lost since the rise of publishing conglomerates (who Epstein describes as "the ghostly imprints of bygone firms") in the 1960s.
		Epstein first described publishing's gradual slide and presented his rosy forecast in three lectures delivered at the New York Public Library in 1999; he expanded these into Book Business: Publishing, Past, Present and Future (W.W. Norton, $21.95), published in February 2001.
		At 72, Epstein remains under contract with Random House to work with some of his former authors, including Doctorow, Mailer, Jane Jacobs, Elaine Pagels and Helen Prejean, as well as newer clients, such as former U.N. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke.
	www.college.columbia.edu /cct/may01/may01_profile_epstein.html (460 words)

	BUSINESS FORWARD - October 2000 - The Next Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Epstein, who seems to know everyone in both the venture and entrepreneurial communities, has a chance to make Katalyst's business accelerator model, a transplant from Philadelphia, the best of its ilk in Washington.
		Epstein has entrepreneurship in his blood: In 1996 he and Sloan founded HealthExtras.com, which developed a health benefits package for United Payors and United Providers, a public healthcare company.
		Now Epstein is leading the charge on raising a new round of financing in the tens of millions of dollars for eLink.
	www.bizforward.com /wdc/issues/2000-10/nextnetwork/page03.shtml (658 words)

	Boston.com / Sports / Varitek is the Red Sox' chosen one
		When Epstein surveyed the rest of the catching market, he determined there was a vast gap in ability between Varitek and whomever was left.
		Jason's giving up at least two years of his free agency to be here, so I think that was a worthy compromise.
		Boras and Epstein said while there was no immediate competition for Varitek, teams expressing interest in his services were put on hold until the Jan. 8 deadline for a team to sign its own free agents.
	www.boston.com /sports/articles/2004/12/25/varitek_is_the_red_sox_chosen_one?mode=PF (963 words)

	Booklist--Epstein, Jason. Book Business.
		Epstein knows his way around publishing; for example, he is a former editorial director of Random House, was the first recipient of the National Book Award for Distinguished Service to American Letters, created the Library of America, and was cofounder of the New York Review of Books.
		Indeed, Epstein’s stroll down memory lane is crowded with the accomplishments and woes of many well-known publishers (such as Bennett Cerf, Horace Liveright, Alfred and Pat Knopf) and the innocent (mainly) idiosyncrasies of writers (such as Vladimir Nabokov, Theodore Dreiser, and William Faulkner).
		Epstein’s analysis of the dire straits in which publishing finds itself is well taken and convincingly argued; the effect that the Internet will have on the industry is not as well argued but explored interestingly.
	archive.ala.org /booklist/v97/adult/ja1/11epstein.html (145 words)

	Book Business - Jason Epstein
		Epstein writes that twenty years ago he advised his children and their friends "to shun the publishing business, which seemed to me then in a state of terminal decrepitude if not extinction".
		Epstein correctly points out that one reason why the conglomerates that currently dominate publishing in America don't make much money is because they run their businesses so badly.
		Epstein also points out that backlists can easily be the main (and most reliable) revenue source -- but that instead of cultivating these publishers focus their attention on the sexier frontlist titles.
	www.complete-review.com /reviews/publish/epsteinj.htm (1878 words)

	Book Business: Publishing, Past, Present and Future (Jason Epstein) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Epstein makes a persuasive case for electronics reducing the costs of reaching readers in ways so that authors and their readers will interact more directly, as they did before the 20th century.
		Epstein had developed his economic insights in more depth, rather than providing a lot of historical background on the industry, the book would have been a lot better.
		Epstein needed a stronger editor to take his marvelous thoughts and shape them into something more visionary and coherent than this book is. But it must be tough to edit a legendary editor.
	www.dochara.com /webstore/uk/product/0393322343.htm (1001 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		When Epstein was still in his 20s, in his first publishing job, at Doubleday, he started and ran the Anchor books imprint, which made classic titles from the firm's backlist newly available in cheap but relatively high-quality paperback editions.
		Epstein (who is today married to Times reporter Judith Miller, a former Cairo bureau chief) is associated with a number of other trail-blazing projects too, which have helped secure his reputation as a publishing innovator.
		Epstein refers several times to the Jewishness of these publishing pioneers, but he never suggests what the connection may have been between their background and their work.
	www.3billionbooks.com /jrep.html (1644 words)

	The Next Golden Age of Publishing: An Interview with Jason Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Book Business and, as we found, in conversation, Epstein's thinking appears to be animated by the creative tension between the visionary and the practical: ideas emerge as his sense of what is possible plays off of his calculations about what is doable.
		Whether or not Jason Epstein is right about technology being the means for publishing to emerge from its current state of acute distress remains to be seen.
		Jason Epstein: By the time the conglomerates got involved, the industry was already in trouble.
	www.honco.net /100day/03/2001-0423-jasonepstein.html (3206 words)

	Book business at a crossroads
		However, Jason Epstein, one of the most qualified persons to review the transformation of the book business from a cottage industry, believes that the printed book will survive for a long time to come.
		Epstein is not a fanatical opponent of big business, but he points out that book publishing is different from running steel mills or any such enterprises.
		Another accomplishment of Epstein is the Library of America series of books, although the idea came from Edmond Wilson who felt that American writers should have a compact volume that could fit into the coat pockets and a uniform series, as in France and other countries.
	www.thehindu.com /thehindu/fline/fl1816/18160720.htm (1389 words)

	Online NewsHour: Book Reviews -- June 20, 2001
		Jason Epstein spent a career in publishing, largely at Random House.
		Jason Epstein, there seems to be a trend here, and so I wonder what, (a), what you think of it, and whether you think book reviews are still important?
		Jason Epstein, given all the other sources that exist today-- the Internet, television-- for information about books, are newspapers and newspaper book reviews as important today as they once were?
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/media/jan-june01/book_06-20.html (1697 words)

	Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future (Jason Epstein)
		Jason Epstein has had an extraordinary career in literary publishing, and if he ever writes a full-blown memoir of that career, it would make interesting reading.
		Epstein dismisses all of popular fiction in a sentence as "formulaic melodrama," and (aside from literary criticism) barely mentions serious non-fiction at all.
		Epstein was the first to publish a line of quality paperbacks (Doubleday Anchor) in 1952, and was a founder of the NY Review of Books.
	www.truefresco.com /bookshop/us/product/0393322343.htm (1232 words)

	God, The Evolving Universe, and American Publishing
		Jason Epstein has had an interesting and probably very lucrative life in American publishing.
		Epstein might well gain a few pointers by reading others who have known the famous but manage to weave it into their tales in a unobstreperous fashion.
		Epstein obviously longs for the days back at Random House's old Villard mansion where everyone knew everyone else and could adjourn to a bar nearby to drink martinis and make gossip about the publishing world.
	www.ralphmag.org /BA/new.html (789 words)

	The Business of the Book Business - the complete review Quarterly
		Epstein generally seems to have attracted somewhat more mainstream attention, the apparently left-leaning Schiffrin (whose book was published by Verso (the imprint of New Left Books)) a bit more more fringe attention.
		In his blurb, Korda opines: "Jason Epstein has written a wise and insightful book", while in the review it is: "at once a thoughtful, witty, and surprisingly affectionate memoir".
		Epstein generally gets off fairly lightly: some feel he is missing a few significant points, or isn't really saying anything specific (especially about the future), but his breezy, cheery tone wins most of them over.
	www.complete-review.com /quarterly/vol2/issue3/bbookb.htm (3129 words)

	Times emit » Blog Archive » Jason Epstein (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It has to be said that Mr Epstein has a vision of the future of books very similar to that of Vicky Barnsley (outlined in her speech to the London Business School) - that of kiosks spitting out books from a central database, printing and binding them on demand.
		Epstein describes his failed joint venture with Prodigy, ‘an Internet shopping service’ using the Reader’s Catalog, and blames their technicians for focusing on the best-sellers rather than the backlist.
		Epstein goes on to celebrate how Amazon.com, and barnesandnoble, lost gazillions of dollars just as he predicted they would.
	www.aptstudio.com /timesemit/2006/06/26/jason-epstein/trackback (2152 words)

	The Christian Science Monitor \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Epstein notes that John Leonard, a near-contemporary of his, wrote this month in the New York Review of Books that predictions about a coming age of Internet publishing make him wonder, with Rimbaud, whether "It can only be the end of the world, ahead of time."
		But Epstein's vision of worldwide literary access presupposes a degree of literacy and technological sophistication that is now by no means universal.
		Also, for lovers of the beautifully bound and illustrated book, or the hole-in-the-wall bookstore with its eccentric proprietress and her bawdy parrot, Epstein's promise of greater access to scantly available writing is not a perfect exchange for the loss of those artistic and social experiences.
	www.csmonitor.com /cgi-bin/durableRedirect.pl?/durable/2001/02/01/p16s1.htm (1015 words)

	CRITIQUE :: Book Business
		Epstein’s central argument is that the book business is by its very nature inefficient, but that as new technologies become available, possibilities to improve the process of manufacturing, distributing and selling books become feasible.
		Epstein relates the decline of urban centers and the rise of the suburbs to the decline of the urban bookstore and the rise of the suburban megastore.
		Epstein’s view of the future is that of vastly improved world for the written word.
	www.etext.org /Zines/Critique/article/bookbusiness.html (678 words)

	LRB \| John Sutherland : Long live the codex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jason Epstein's imagination stretches from primeval man, arranging 'meaningful phonemes to the beat of stone upon stone or to the sound of hollowed logs used as drums', to the impact on book business, eons hence, of 'the global village green.
		Epstein found the firm congenial and it was his home for most of his publishing career, although he also found other outlets for his exuberant energies.
		Epstein claims (and it is the only unprofitable venture he admits to) that he invented the idea behind Amazon.com.
	www.lrb.co.uk /v23/n13/suth01_.html (2547 words)

	July 30 OCLC Seminar: Jason Epstein, The Digital Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		On July 30, Jason Epstein and Michael Smolens will address the publishing industry's prospects in the digital era, in their lecture entitled, "Reading: The Digital Future." There has been much publicity about the publishing industry's current crisis.
		Epstein believes the cure to publishing's ills lies in a "uniform, universal book catalog" connected to a network of low-overhead print on demand machines.
		Jason Epstein's lecture will focus on the publishing industry, the need for and characteristics of the universal book catalog, and the remaining challenges to be addressed.
	www.library.yale.edu /~llicense/ListArchives/0207/msg00089.html (456 words)

	Publishing Veteran Sees the Web as Godsend / Longtime editor's book predicts healthier industry
		Another, by Richard Avedon, is of Epstein at the trial of the Chicago Seven with Jules Feiffer and William Kunstler.
		Epstein was the son of a textile merchant from Milton, Mass.
		Epstein, along with Robert Silvers, Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Hardwick, was a founder of the New York Review of Books.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/17/BU77409.DTL&type=tech_article (1427 words)

	ALA \| C&RL, November 2001, Vol. 62, No. 6, Epstein book review
		Jason Epstein’s brief memoir is part history and part professional autobiography.
		According to him, from its apex in the 1920s, trade publishing declined precipitously in the postwar period from a industry dominated by quirky, dedicated missionaries of the word to one enmeshed in, and finally destroyed by, the soulless world of global capitalism.
		As a missionary of great literature, Epstein sees himself as a rescuer of noble traditions in the context of banality and mediocrity.
	www.ala.org /ala/acrl/acrlpubs/crljournal/backissues2001b/november01/epsteinbookreview.htm (872 words)

	Holt Uncensored #145 : 4/18/00
		Epstein raises a number of crucial points that are important to all of us in the book industry - especially that publishing may be the midst of reinventing itself (on the Internet, at least) as an again-beloved "cottage industry" of the future.
		Epstein would rather put the blame on chain bookstores for letting good books fall through the cracks, and that's a huge admission coming from an editor whose employers used to say the book industry would be nowhere without the chains.
		It's great to see Epstein's take on the idea that the 20th century's great literary breakthroughs were set in the 1920s, leaving the job for the rest of us to rattle like "pebbles on the shore" under the force of that receding wave (from Yeats' quote).
	www.holtuncensored.com /members/column145.html (2673 words)

	New Statesman - Book Reviews - Terminal decrepitude
		Jason Epstein's book is the third in the past 12 months to describe the passing of an era in publishing.
		Epstein was a colleague of Schiffrin at Random House in New York.
		Random House, when Epstein arrived there in 1957, was one of the larger US publishers, but was still essentially a cottage industry - "an unusually happy, second family".
	www.newstatesman.co.uk /200104230046.htm (839 words)

	Epstein & Littwin LLP
		Jason attended the University of Pennsylvania, where he received his undergraduate degree as an Economics and English major.
		Jason is also admitted to practice in Federal Court in the Eastern and Southern Districts of New York.
		Jason is a member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA), as well as the Trusts and Estates and Real Property Law sections of the NYSBA.
	www.lawadvocacy.com /about_partners.html (197 words)

	Jason Epstein - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jason Epstein is a key figure in the popularisation of the trade paperback.
		He also founded Anchor Books, and the New York Review of Books, with others.
		In 1993, Epstein married Judith Miller, a journalist who writes for The New York Times.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jason_Epstein (144 words)

	The Last Undeveloped Publishing Market (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Epstein's vision has certainly been noticed by China Book Business Report (CBBR) and prompted a series of CBBR reports addressing not only his ideas but the many responses to them (for example, "Behold, DotCommunism!", a critique comparing the views of Epstein and John Perry Barlow by Gordon Graham, editor of the British publishing review LOGOS).
		This possibility fits perfectly with Jason Epstein's ideal of a great cultural popularization and promotion of serious reading, ushered in through the growth of the Internet, for instance.
		As I understand it, Epstein means a better position for authors (especially the midlist), small, creative publishers (especially trade), and readers around the world.
	www.honco.net /100day/03/2001-0523-lin.html (1337 words)

	The Implausible Enthusiasm of Jason Epstein Judith Shulevitz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Implausible Enthusiasm of Jason Epstein Judith Shulevitz
		Epstein sums up the dilemma with this clever formula: "The excessive royalty guarantees demanded by the authors of predictable best-sellers render their profitability problematic, while the profitability of books in the broader category is made problematic by the unpredictability of their sales."
		Epstein seems to be misled by his dislike of large companies into hoping that little ones will overcome the big ones' built-in economic advantage.
	slate.msn.com /id/1006816 (1515 words)

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