Photo: Marvin Orellana/New York Magazine ; Luoman/Getty Images The CEO and founder of the specialty bookseller Juniper Books is surrounded by faux-academic felt pennants that read “BOOK NERD,” “BE HUMBLE,” and “DO HARD THINGS” when I meet him at New York Now, the home-and-gift trade show held at the Javits Center.
Wine was born to entrepreneurs; his parents, Barry and Susan Wine, owned the 1980s midtown restaurant the Quilted Giraffe, known for its gold-leaf-garnished caviar crêpes called “beggar’s purses.” He entered the book world after his tech start-up, Feedback Direct, failed in 2001. Inspired by a third-generation-bookseller friend who bought and sold used books online, Wine attended estate sales and bookstore liquidations to buy books , which he then sold on eBay and AbeBooks.
In 2010, Wine started making custom book jackets, and six years later he was granted U.S. Patent No. 9,349,308 for “dynamic application of a design across multiple product packages” — in other words, for printing one photograph or painting across multiple spines so they compose a single image on the shelf, like a photo of a skier going off a snowy ledge.
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Omg! I just color coded my bookshelf and felt so proud. I read them all, I swwweear!
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This is so perfect for the Instagram culture we live in, and so incredibly sad.
You *are* supposed to pick your own books. 🙄
This is something PINsykes / thehighlowshow would read ✨