Why Books Survive

The New Republic has a book review of Book Business: Publishing Past Present and Future by Jason Epstein that turns out to be much more than a review. The author of the review has more than a few things to say about books and the publishing industry.

\”The conviction that not only will people always want books, and will want them as they have always had them–on the shelves in bookstores–and will travel great distances to get to them, has led me to put upward of 300,000 books in four buildings in my hometown in West Texas.\”