Reading Revolution Quotes

Ebooks had to happen.

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

I think I was the third person in the world to get a Kindle, and I hated it from the minute I got it.

The age of the book is almost gone.

What's encouraging is that the early new platforms - Kindle and iPad - are clearly leading to people buying more books. The data is in on that.

Electronic books are junk.

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

The advent of ebooks is no more going to kill the pleasure of reading than the introduction of the internal combustion engine made horses extinct.

I was just lucky I lived in this time of mass-market paperbacks.

Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.

I am not opposed to e-readers. Any technology that encourages the reading of literature is a good thing.

I think the book business is really sitting on the greatest moment in the history of time. We are providing the stories to the hungry public. We have more avenues to do it than ever before.

I'm bringing reading back. I'm making reading great again!

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.

I have an affection for tangible objects, like books and pages, but people sure do seem to love their Kindles! We're definitely in the middle of a revolution that will determine how people find, read, and experience stories.

I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

Books and technology are braided together and always have been.