Penn Jillette Quotes

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.

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.

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

Electronic books are junk.

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.

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

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.

The Web or card experience is not at all going to replicate the book experience, nor is the book experience going to replicate the Web.

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

I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.

I've never read an ebook. Print every time.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

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

'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.

Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.

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.

When I write, I'm still imagining a kid reading it on paper. I read e-books when I travel, but in general I still prefer holding an old-fashioned book in my hands. There's a special, tactile experience.

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

I often get asked, 'Is the book dead?' It hasn't happened yet. It's different than music. Music was always meant to be pure sound - it started out as pure sound and now it's pure sound again. But books started out as things. Words on paper began as words on paper. The paperback book is the best technology to deliver that information to you.

One already feels like an anachronism, writing novels in the age of what-ever-this-is-the-age-of, but touring to promote them feels doubly anachronistic. The marketplace is showing an increasing intolerance for the time-honored practice of printing information on paper and shipping it around the country.

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

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.

The technology that threatens to kill off books as we know them - the 'physical book,' a new phrase in our language - is also making the physical book capable of being more beautiful than books have been since the middle ages.