Sam Abell Quotes

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

To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee - a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.

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

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.

The Internet will make every enterprise a publisher.

Five years ago, we thought of the Web as a new medium, not a new economy.

Before blogs, it was all about physical presence. We used to send out videos and audiotapes to communicate. Blogging and the Internet allow us to engage in a lot more real time conversations as opposed to a one-way dump of information or a message.

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

The Internet's a driving force in the change from mass media to 'my media,' in which consumers will be their own programmers.

I hate to think of a day where a compelling book or a compelling authorial voice would be lost simply because that person doesn't have a Web site. But I think that, to use the Internet in a positive way, to turn people on to reading, is something that authors shouldn't really shy away from necessarily.

I don't think that the movie industry is any more ready than any other part of the information industries to adapt itself to the information age. But it's going to go there one way or the other.

When the Internet came along, at first it was just a medium for moving text around - books first, then pictures, finally video. Each time the bandwidth expanded, so did the capabilities of the medium, and each time it happened, the Internet cannibalized preexisting formats. And each time, those formats had to adapt. Or die.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.

We all know about blogs and how big they are.

Anything remotely resembling news media is going to continue to migrate online until very little or none of it is produced on dead trees.

The Internet has changed everything. We expect to know everything instantly. If you don't understand digital communication, you're at a disadvantage.

I am a little curmudgeonly about new media.

The Internet will change the way we work, live, learn, and play.

I am of the bridge generation that remembers life before social media permeated everything but cannot imagine life without it now.

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

With the Internet today, it is possible to do some mixed media things where you can write about an artist and link to a song or video by that artist. But that was unheard of in the years I was at the paper.

Print is not dead.

Society is causing us to talk less and interact more digitally. So, I'd be remiss if I didn't believe that businesses will have to follow that same path.

The student of media soon comes to expect the New Media of any period whatever to be classed as 'pseudo' by those who acquired the patterns of earlier media, whatever they may happen to be.