Jason Epstein on ‘The Future of Books’

December 23, 2004 | 10:15 am

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Jason Epstein, one of the grand old men of publishing, who helped popularize quality paperbacks, has a piece in the MIT Technology Review on The Future of Books. He’s especially keen on print on demand technology, just as he is in Book Business: Publishing: Past, Present and Future. (Found via LISNews.)

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