Adrian Tomine Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

Electronic books are junk.

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.

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

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

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

I will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.

Much is published, but little printed.

Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to eclipse everything. They will save traditional publishing the way DVDs saved movie studios (for a while) and they'll greatly expand the number of readers.

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.

Cars did not kill off horses. Digital publishing will not kill off books.

It is quite clear that compelling content, which is made available on economic terms that respect the intellectual rights of owners, can be a tremendous spur to the growth of broadband networks.

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.

I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

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.

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