Sonny Mehta Quotes

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

It's been more than a decade since I put that self-published novel, 'Lip Service', up on a website. Since then, many hundreds of authors have gone from self-published to traditionally published.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

Sergey Brin has said to me, like, 10 times now, 'Why do you bother doing books? Why don't you just put all this stuff on the Internet?' It's because 10 years from now, my book will still be sitting on someone's coffee table or in a waiting room.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours. I've spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

The Big Five publishing companies are dinosaurs trying to survive in a post-meteor world. They won't.

I make a good living selling hardback books through paper publishers, and I have many friends in the industry who will suffer as it changes, so on a personal level, the transition to digital isn't something I welcome wholeheartedly.

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.

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 a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

I knew people were independently publishing, and I buy books on Amazon. I began seriously considering it when Amanda Hocking was in the news about her self-publishing success.

Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best.

I think the more avenues that open up when people want to publish, the better. Some of the authors that want to jump ship from the traditional houses and go on their own, you know what? Good luck. It's going to be a lot tougher than you think.

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

I think I'm gonna attach myself to the sinking ship that is book publishing.

A magazine is simply a device to induce people to read advertising.

Publishing is in a kind of Jurassic age.

I come from a long line of people that write. My folks ran a weekly newspaper.

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

Newspaper readership is still growing in India.

The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we're not seeing in any other way. Unfortunately, self-publishing doesn't have that.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

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.

I know most publishers probably don't let their authors write on Wattpad all the time, but mine are pretty open about it.

More and more readers are finding important and interesting content through platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and now Medium rather than traditional publishers.