Quotes About Ebooks

I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.

Higher ebook prices don't benefit me, booksellers or readers, and that means something is really wrong.

My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.

Digital reading will completely take over. It's lightweight and it's fantastic for sharing. Over time it will take over.

Authors will make far more on those ebooks through direct sales than publishers are offering. There is no incentive for authors to sell those rights to traditional publishers which means, in the fairly short term, publishers run out of material to sell.

Paper publishers are doing everything they can to slow the transition to eBooks because, in a digital world, paper publishers' high hardback margins essentially disappear.

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I am happy for Amazon.com's success. As one of the first indie Authors who published on Amazon and was featured as their Author Success Story, I should think so! So should Amazon be happy for the successes of their Author Success Stories for their continued successes reflect on Amazon's continued nurturance and support for Indie Authors and the very ones who helped them win the standards battle over other ebook retailers.

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 sometimes read books on my iPad.

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

Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand.

Until now, our discussion has focused on current books—those published within the past few years and usually available free only through Amazon for a limited time.

One of the best things about Amazon's digital bookstore is that many of its most popular books are offered completely free of charge during brief promotional periods.

People want to buy mp3s but can't? Piracy ensues. Then Apple strong-arms the music studios into the iTunes store and music piracy drops somewhat. The same, I believe, is also happening with ebooks.

Digital books are still painfully ugly and weirdly irritating to interact with. They look like copies of paper, but they can't be designed or typeset in the same way as paper, and however splendid the cover images may look on a hi-res screen, they're still images rather than physical things.

I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.

Remember that just because major publishing is having trouble, that doesn't mean people have stopped reading books. Printed books won't go away, but ebooks won't go away, either.

Tengo que dejar de ser tan esnob, se recordó a sí mismo. Al final los ebooks sí tienen sus cosas buenas.

Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness — a little bit of humanity.

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a substitute for it. You can probably read just enough of the book off the screen to realize you want to be reading it on paper.

the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.

Authors can easily produce ebook versions of novels and shorter work which publishers don't own.

Back in August, I wrote a post about the supposed race to the bottom with ebooks, refuting some nonsense written by an establishment bonehead. This meme won't die. People are still convinced that new ebooks are going to be priced at ten cents, and writers will starve, and this will cause a second Great Depression where banks will close and people will be forced to buy Kindles with food stamps, and then the earth will enter another ice age where all the bunnies will freeze to death.