Epstein's work background includes starting Anchor Books at the age of 25, launching the Library of America, co-founding "the New York Review of Books" in 1963, and creating the Reader's Catalog in 1988.
Except, of course, that once this blend is created, the reader is no longer just a reader, but a TV watcher or radio listener too, with sounds and moving images filling in for what might be the writer's lack of elegance or descriptive depth.
In that way reader and writer become partners in creating the reader's experience of it.
Profits may have tripled recently, but it's passion, according to Murtagh, that predominantly drives the industry – a sense of being "custodians of the best children's content", with a unique responsibility to "create the readers of the future".
Like the best science-fiction and fantasy novels, "Dune" creates for the reader a complex, fully-realized universe.
Like many of the best works of history, "1861" creates the uncanny illusion that the reader has stepped into a time machine.
Apple essentially invented the modern MP3 player and touch-screen phone; Amazon basically created the e-reader and the home assistant.
Soon, with the introduction of advertising to the site, a nice business began to take shape, maybe even an ideal business: volunteers lovingly created the content; readers visited the site and clicked on the advertising.
I thought of her only as a reader, and thought of the distance obsessive reading could create between the reader and the known world.
What Harbach accomplishes in "The Art of Fielding" is to create for the reader (or this reader, at any rate) a space as safe and blissful as the baseball diamond was for Henry before his errant throw.
