Charles Forsman Quotes

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

I'll still do print comics; as long as there's a market, I'll still be there. I just have a hard time believing that's the future.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

There's an obvious marketing component to doing something digitally where you're reaching out to new readers that you can't do in the existing print marketplace, or that it's difficult to do in the existing print marketplace.

For me personally, I get to be a cartoonist, because my comic would never survive in print. Maybe one in 100 people would like it, but online, I can gather that one percent all in one place.

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

What we're increasingly seeing is comics are becoming better known across the world. They're recording shows wherever they are, then putting them online for everyone. It has definitely changed in that way.

Some comics are made to be displayed digitally, and it doesn't degrade them.

So much has changed in our business. E-books, that's been one of the principal developments. There has been also the failure of Borders and the rise of Amazon, just to name two others.

I listen to tech podcasts and read tech news everyday. So I am not unfamiliar with Amazon's practices. I'm not surprised that they bought Comixology.

Straight-up digital delivery will be the way the future works.

Much is published, but little printed.

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.

It [eBook] is like introducing the machine gun to a revolutionary war. It changes everything. If you can reach your fans directly without having to go through a middle man, the entire economics of the publishing business changes.

I started buying on the Internet quite rapidly, as early as 1995.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

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

The future of television is not on television but online. A majority of us are turning to our computers and mobile devices for news and entertainment, Millennials especially.

We have CBS.com, we have our stuff on iTunes. We feel the wave of the future is getting as much distribution as we can. We feel that we should be nonexclusive and get our content out there.

Digital books and music are often different from their physical counterparts in that consumers buy licences to a work, revocable under an ongoing contract, rather than their own copies.

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

I do still read comics since I started writing for DC, but nowhere near as much as I used to, and I'm finding now that it's becoming harder to read comics as a consumer, so I think I'll have to make the call there and stop reading them.