Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future
by Epstein, Jason
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- F/F
- ISBN 10
- 0393049841
- ISBN 13
- 9780393049848
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. F/F. A wonderful tight clean copy, protected in a new brodart wrapper, no inscri ptions, unclipped dustjacket, this is not an Ex-Lib or a BCE/BOMC edition. 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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- Seller
- Infinity Books Japan (JP)
- Seller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000008504
- Title
- Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present, and Future
- Author
- Epstein, Jason
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - F/F
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0393049841
- ISBN 13
- 9780393049848
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2001
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About Infinity Books Japan
Infinity Books Japan,was founded in the year 2002, we pride ourselves in being there for our customers, we deal in, used, rare, out of print and first editions.
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- Brodart
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- Trade Paperback
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- First Edition
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