Rob Liefeld Quotes

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.

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.

People say: 'Oh, but would you be happy for your show to go on BBC3 if it was just online?' If I was sat here telling you I had just signed a huge deal with Netflix you'd be going: 'Wow, that's amazing.' You can't see it as 'Oh, it's no longer a channel because it's not on TV.'

It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year.

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.

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

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.

Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.

The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.

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.

Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.

The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they're taking 30 points. So clearly, they're viewing what they bring to the table in the digital environment to be more valuable than distribution.

There are no easy answers for the balance of how you protect the core business of the books with what the digital future will look like, but that would be our job with DC Comics, to figure that out and experiment and take some risks while always protecting the core business.

My opinion, young people go to the Internet. To the Internet distribution system right now, you put it up there and it's accessed by the world.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

One thing I often talk about in my business is that an eBook is not like a print book: it's very, very different. It's organic. It's changing.

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.

The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.

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

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.

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.