Tina Brown Quotes

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

We have CBS.com, we have our stuff on iTunes. We feel the wave of the future is getting as much distribution as we can. We feel that we should be nonexclusive and get our content out there.

You can't hold up a blog; you can hold up a magazine.

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.

What we're increasingly seeing is comics are becoming better known across the world. They're recording shows wherever they are, then putting them online for everyone. It has definitely changed in that way.

Much is published, but little printed.

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to get it published at nominal cost or free, and to have it on sale at booksellers like Amazon.com.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.

At Yahoo, we were one of the early proponents of the power of content showcased through new media. SnagFilms, with its large library and breadth of digital distribution, can help shape this next phase, bringing great stories to broad new audiences.

As things go digital, the notion of new editions will go away. A publisher can add video and assessment content at scale, make the change in 30 seconds and it's just a software update.

I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.

I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.

Technology has changed the way book publishing works, as it has changed everything else in the world of media.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

Exclusive will not be published in book format.