Chris Pavone Quotes

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

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.

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.

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

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 sometimes read books on my iPad.

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

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.

Ebooks had to happen.

It's interesting that the book publishing industry, on the iPad, has much more flexibility than the music industry had.

I'm very intrigued by e-books, the topic du jour in the industry today. As a number one bestselling Kindle author, I love the way e-books make an author's backlist accessible to new readers. Of course, price point remains a source of concern. Personally, I don't have any of the answers, but I'm intrigued by the questions.

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.

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

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 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.

Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

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

Electronic books are junk.

I hate that not everything ever written is on iBooks. Man, I hate paper.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

I really started self-publishing on a serious level in 2002. Those smaller books did well, ended up moving from doing a series to compiling everything into a trade paperback in about 2005.

There's almost no author alive who isn't weathering the tumultuous changes in the publishing industry.

Digital-Original publishing embraces the non-conventional and genre-busting story. It allows me to share good stories with readers who will enjoy them, and at a reasonable price.