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crl-15490	Ryan, Michael	Epstein, Jason. Book Business: Publishing Past, Present, and Future. New York: W. W. Norton, 2001. 188p. $21.95 (ISBN: 0393049841). LC 00-60079.	2001-11-01	2	.pdf	application/pdf	1385	80	65	Epstein also lets fly his share of howlers, among them, an oddly vitriolic denunciation of the Catholic Church as “that sex-besotted, dictatorial Church” (oh, dear!); a swipe at the Library of America for issuing “a volume of sermons most of which are with­ out [sic] literary value or historical inter­ est in themselves” (just give me The Canon, thank-you); or an odd reading of Marx advocating that “technological changes—what Marx called changes in the forms of production—produce changes in consciousness” (which Marx?). These are the people looking for—and finding— those audiences abandoned by the corpo­ rate dinosaurs, and their quiet successes make for a very different view of the present state of books and publishing in America.	cache/crl-15490.pdf	txt/crl-15490.txt