bookpotato’s Reviews > The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstore > Status Update

“When you sell a man a book, you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life.” - Roger Mifflin.

This is so incredibly fascinating to recognize names of publishing houses, but read about the people behind those mega-names today. For all, it's an unyielding love of literature and books that drove them and their publishing houses to bring to the world overlooked gems.