M. J. Rose Quotes

I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.

In my view, the ebook world for both established and new authors is a terrific new and exciting format. It is a format that will bring forth many new writers to publishing.

I think one of the most exciting things about the whole digital side of publishing is that it eventually allows you to operate at any length. That also means shorter stuff, too.

I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.

E-books present the greatest opportunity readers have ever had to find each other. It's a chance for stories written for paper to find new life and a chance for new stories to appear, freed from the constraints of paper publishing.

I love giving people advice on what to do with their books, but I don't really know how a Kindle Single gets covered.

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.

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

It's easier to release an ebook than a print book.

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

As the Kindle's dread grip on digital publishing is challenged by tablet computers and Android smartphones, with their bright screens and high resolution, the need for illustration is growing.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

The Internet is the ultimate vanity-publishing medium, and therefore, the ultimate place for those of us who like to watch. The Internet can reach an audience at lower cost than any medium before it.

Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.

One of the nice things about publishing with Amazon is that the window for marketing is much longer than with a traditional publisher because these titles are not coming off of shelves.

There are so many ways to make a book or comic, but most involve doing something online.

Everyone at ComiXology has been very supportive and enthusiastic about getting 'Youngblood' as well as the rest of the Awesome/Extreme catalogue online. Hopes are high that this relationship leads to more online comics.

Open access is good, but we have to have ways and means where content that has been generated with a lot of effort and cost also gets the chance to monetise itself as is now beginning to happen in the West where some publications are really beginning to make their Internet revenue lines and subscription revenue lines quite significant.

All of the changes in publishing since 1960 are significant. There are far fewer publishers.

E-books, which made their debut in the 1990s, cut costs even more for both consumer and producer, though as the Internet expanded, those roles became confused.

I'm in favor of any technology that makes my work available to the reading public at a reasonable price.

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

The cool thing about the Internet now is it's democratized platforms. Like, anybody can create a blog. Anybody can give themselves some type of place where their work is visible.