John Green Quotes

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.

Electronic books are junk.

The age of the book is almost gone.

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

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

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.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

I don't read much of anything online.

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

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

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

The future of reading is screens. Books are toast.

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

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

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.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

In our day, computer technology and the proliferation of books on CD-ROM have not affected - as far as statistics show - the production and sale of books in their old-fashioned codex form.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

My books don't sell anymore. There are many reasons why they don't sell, but one of the reasons is because people don't read anymore. Forget about reading books of detail - they don't read at all.

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

In the digital future, texts will be annotated visually, animated and illustrated like never before. The austere 'prayer book' paper that permitted the space for Shepard's illustrations to Pepys' diaries is now being recreated in the digital era.

I don't follow anything online. I am rather slow on that side.

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