ot: first modern book-seller

[filkferengi]

Here's a fun article about the first modern book-seller. Lots of the innovations he introduced are fundamentals today.

http://lithub.com/the-man-who-invented-bookselling-as-we-know-it/#

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[frosted-feather.livejournal.com]

Very interesting article! I'm sure everyone here can agree with his thoughts after spening his last half-crown on a book of poems, Edward Young’s Night Thoughts:

“For had I bought a dinner, we should have eaten it tomorrow, and the pleasure would have been soon over, but should we live fifty years longer, we shall have the Night Thoughts to feast upon.”