Jason Kilar Quotes

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

The distributor used to get 10, 12, 14 percent in most cases, but the App Store or Steam - they're taking 30 points. So clearly, they're viewing what they bring to the table in the digital environment to be more valuable than distribution.

The common intuition is that e-books should be cheap because they aren't physical - no printing, no shipping.

I never download anything; it's crazy! We must keep buying albums and DVDs.

E-commerce is applicable to Russia, just as it's applicable to any other market.

Digitisation was supposed to lead to a great democratisation of access to creative work.

In an economy where more and more value is in information - is in the bits, not the atoms, where bits can be copied essentially for free - any time you have that situation, economic schemes that rely on existing models of intellectual property laws for protection are going to do less and less well.

A store is just a collection of content. The Steam store is this very safe, boring entertainment experience. Nobody says, 'I'm going to play the Steam store now.'

Guess what? The world changes. eBay has defined e-commerce.

The Internet is fundamentally free, and when faced with the decision to use something free, we, as humans, always seek to grab all we can.

The promise of the Internet is around this transcendence of physical geography. To a large degree, the Internet has delivered on that promise, but when it comes to the movement of money and the ability to start and operate a business or needing to purchase from a business, it really hasn't.

Steam is not really leading the PC in any creative way, but it certainly has proved that the PC is a viable commercial platform by having a product that is amazingly easy to use for the end user, to the point where it's easier to buy a game on Steam than it is to pirate it.

The awesome thing about 'Fortnite' is it's brought a huge volume of digital commerce to Epic.

We all have an interest in an open Internet.

E-commerce is not an industry; e-commerce is a tactic.

Do you remember the first three years of Steam? People absolutely hated that Valve forced you to launch their game through what some people called a virus at the time, which was the Steam client. But Steam led the digital distribution revolution: it was the first across all platforms.

Using Roblox is free but the creators are able to charge virtual currency for the experiences. In our bird simulator you can become an eagle for $10.

The Internet is the fastest way to get what you want and expose yourself to music you would never have heard otherwise.

We have to take a long view on net neutrality.

More and more people are opening online stores and online retail businesses. This market is expanding very, very quickly.

More people are using PayPal more frequently.

The Web isn't an electronic storefront to do business in the old way. The Web is the business.

When you're sharing the music, you're not buying the CD. When you're sharing that video, you're not buying the TV. But we thought, really, there'd be a firewall. While near-zero marginal cost would impact virtual goods, we never thought it would move over to the physical world.

We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.

I should say here, because some in Washington like to dream up ways to control the Internet, that we don't need to 'control' free speech, we need to control ourselves.