Jeff Bezos Quotes

Electronic books are junk.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

To compare books to computers, I mean, computers are the way to get books. That is the medium for distributing text because it doesn't require paper.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

The age of the book is almost gone.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused.

I love digital books. And I actually started digital-first publishing back in 2005.

'The Expats' would not exist without e-books.

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.

The advent of Kindle, the iPad, and other portable reading devices has so far simply resulted in turning analog print into digital print while keeping the same linear prose format.

Every time there is a major shift in technology, it's been hugely exciting and scary at the same time. I have seen some really drastic changes in technology, like shooting only film to video to digital.

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

Books should cost less and they should be digital.

Innovation - the heart of technological change - is fundamentally a learning process.

Technology is always ahead of the law.

With any advent in technology, any technological innovation, there is the good and the bad.

It would be ridiculous to ignore the speed and possibilities of the digital landscape.

I never thought, in my lifetime, that you'd be able to watch movies, read books and listen to music from a phone, but I guess the technology of tomorrow is here today.

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

Games are a media that relies on technology to be innovative and forward thinking and interesting. Personally, I love being at that forefront when something new comes out.

The tech world is not a new phenomenon; it's a new era.