Quotes from Tom Wheeler

Bezos's Amazon e-reader broke 550 years of precedent by separating the act of publishing from putting ink on paper.

In the North, however, the wartime absence from Congress of southern representatives had the benefit of eliminating the opposition that had prevented federal aid to expand the railroad westward.

On July 1, 1862, Lincoln signed the Pacific Railway Act, authorizing a government program to enable the Union Pacific Railroad to build west from the Missouri River and the Central Pacific Railroad to build east from Sacramento to create the first transcontinental railroad.

Consumers accessing the newly available books often discovered they were farsighted and needed glasses.

In Estonia, for instance, a citizen can conduct her entire relationship with the government online, including voting.

Ultimately, he decreed that anyone who published a book without prior approval would be excommunicated.