Nicholas Negroponte Quotes

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

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 will always prefer a hardback book, but I'm drawn to digital because it's so easy to acquire them when I'm having a need-to-read moment.

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.

Electronic books are junk.

Ebooks had to happen.

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.

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

'The Expats' would not exist without e-books.

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

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.

Look at the world of books nowadays. People just download books. They don't go to a bookstore. Amazon is wiping out Borders and Barnes and Noble. Those are brilliant examples of ephemeralization doing more with less at a better price.

Books should cost less and they should be digital.

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.

Reading for me will be a combination of books, magazines, Tumblr and just kind of the Web in general on the iPad.

I sometimes read books on my iPad.

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

Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

We have a generation of kids who may never see a bookshelf or never see books in houses. What are they going to think about books? How will books become meaningful in their lives except as yet another form of digitalized content? A book is not just digitalized content.

E-books are impervious to analogy.

Much is published, but little printed.

The problem with digital books is that you can always find what you are looking for but you need to go to a bookstore to find what you weren't looking for.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

I sure do think it is an emergent form, but I also despair of reading online until screen quality is better.

PhotoDisc is an entirely digital provider in both CD-ROM and the Internet. Getty was primarily an analog distributor.