FSG's CEO Declares a New Age of the "Never-Done" Book

When he’s not busy running FSG, Jonathan Galassi is fretting over his translations of Giacomo Leopardi. Upon seeing his proofs, Galassi thought and then wrote: “And suddenly, sometimes embarrassingly, you can see how it could be still further improved: If only you’d thought of that before! That’s one encouraging aspect of the fact that books are going to be less and less ‘solid-state’ in the digital world.” Really? We’re doing that now? Yay, no one bother to finish your books ever! We’ll just iterate them. It’s going to be hell on the book critics but that’s their problem. Plus they can iterate their reviews. Fun!