Joshua Cohen Quotes

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

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

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.

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.

Ebooks had to happen.

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 sometimes read books on my iPad.

I do worry that the days of the physical paper are seriously numbered.

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.

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.

Electronic books are junk.

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

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.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

Film and the other creative industries are being transformed by digital technologies.

We'd been noticing how much more important the internet had become - once information is out there in the world now, anyone can get it. Since that was beginning to happen with the record anyway, we figured, OK, let's just stream it for free ourselves.

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.

E-books are great for instant gratification - you see a review somewhere of a book that interests you, and you can start reading it five minutes later.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

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

At present, however, I don't think the Net is a very good medium for books, books should really be inexpensive lightweight paperbacks you can bang around.

You can't love a library of e-books. You can't furnish a room with e-books.

The revolutionary process by which all books, old and new, in all languages, will soon be available digitally, at practically no cost for storage and delivery, to a radically decentralized world-wide market at the click of a mouse, is irreversible.