Chip Kidd Quotes

Electronic books are junk.

I hate those e-books. They cannot be the future. They may well be.

I think the definition of a book is changing.

I would always want printed books.

I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

It's interesting how powerful, in fact, the printed page still is.

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

My gut feeling is that paper and ink are going to be with us for a long time yet, and in substantial quantities, though certainly books are now going to be available in other forms.

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

There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.

The most technologically efficient machine that man has ever invented is the book.

Right up to the middle of this century all perceptions of the world around us were delivered via the bookshelf or the paper route.

Bookstores don't exactly dot the American highway in the grand manner of Sbarros.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.

Two must-haves for me are a great book and my iPod.

I like to hold a book. When someone sends me a script, I ask for a hard copy or print one out.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books and it weigh 10 ounces.

Books is our main type of content, but we include user-generated content and will include other verticals such as scientific papers, sheet music, and comic books.

Books had instant replay long before televised sports.

We’re going to carry our books in our breast pocket. They only thing is it will not look like a book.

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

Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.