Scott Kelby Quotes

To rush to throw away your magazine business and move it on the iPad is just sheer insanity and insecurity and fear.

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

I don't know what's going on with new media and digital stuff. It's all changing.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

I am so inspired by new media.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

Five to 10 years from now, if not sooner, the vast majority of 'The New Republic' readers are likely to be reading it on a tablet.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

We do live in this age of new media.

There certainly was a lot of potential in the air for doing a magazine which focused on the way business, in particular, was being transformed by the Internet.

I won't even try to predict the specifics, but I think the ebook - as a medium - could be a game-changer.

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

I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

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

With the Internet today, it is possible to do some mixed media things where you can write about an artist and link to a song or video by that artist. But that was unheard of in the years I was at the paper.

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.

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

On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.

There was a time when we would pick up Women's Wear Daily and couldn't wait to see what it read. And now, you get it five minutes later on your iPad or your phone! The same has to apply to fashion.

Film is not very practical. The new world goes faster, and digital is very fast.

Technology and the internet have changed the world of publishing forever.

The newspaper industry when I came along in the mid-70s was rich and powerful and growing and hungry for material and open to new people. None of that is true in the newspaper industry today. Print in general is pretty rugged. The good thing is that you can gain a foothold on the Internet because everybody has access to it, even things like Twitter - I mean, you can get a reputation for being funny pretty quickly on Twitter, on a blog, that kind of thing.