Book Business. Publishing: Past, Present, and Future

First edition. 8vo., xiv, 188 pp. Index. Quarter bound red linen cloth over textured orange paper boards, lettered in gilt to spine.

Based on the author's W.W. Norton Lectures delivered at the New York Public Library in October 1999, a survey of the crisis facing book publishing at the turn of the new millennium and a look ahead to an industry radically transformed by electronic distribution.

A former editorial director of Random House, Epstein 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. "[A] brilliant, moving and profoundly insightful rendering of the history, status and future of American publishing." –Toni Morrison