Digital Books Quotes

Physical books are still my favorite, but I own an e-book reader. They're convenient for travel.

Ebooks had to happen.

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.

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

I have a couple of dozen books on my reader: ideal for a long trip or an afternoon waiting at the medical clinic. It's flexible.

The crazy thing is that when we go to somebody's house, what's better than looking at their bookshelves? Nobody's ever going to say, "Can I see the index to your Kindle?" It's so depressing and so unsexy. Sure, it's there, but nobody is going to get excited by that.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

Communications will become sight-sound and you will see as well as hear the person you telephone. The screen can be used not only to see the people you call but also for studying documents and photographs and reading passages from books.

I'm entirely of the mindset that when it comes to books, they've got to be paper.

The e-book does seem at the moment to threaten the livelihood of writers, because the way in which writers are paid for their work in the form of e-books is very much up in the air.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

I'm a digital reader. When I travel abroad, I don't want to pack physical books, and I even like reading on my smartphone.

MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.

Electronic books are junk.

Books should cost less and they should be digital.

I had a Kindle for a brief while, but I dropped it in the ocean, and that was the end of electronic reading for me.

I think we did a great job of putting together a program that would have made good e-books available had people been buying e-books in any real numbers.

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.

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.

I travel a lot for work, so downloading books is easier than carrying them around.

I occasionally read digital books when I'm traveling, but I do so begrudgingly.

I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.

Higher ebook prices only benefit one group: publishers.

It's very difficult to read a book on your computer.

Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.