Quotes About Books Vs Ebooks

#1. We may need to put down the book from time to time, but we should make sure not to let the computer become the new book. The universal medium, like the universal library, is a dream that does more harm than good.

Andrew Piper

#2. And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.

S.A. Tawks

#3. Reciprocal marketing, promotions and links. In public good experiments, behavioral economists have demonstrated that the potential for reciprocal actions by players increases the rate of contribution to the public good, providing evidence for the importance of reciprocity in social situations.

Carl William Brown

#4. With my adult books, for the first six weeks or so, it's about 60 percent ebooks in terms of sales. The kids' books, it's like 5 percent. Which means that the parents, the ones that aren't going into stores now, they're no longer buying books for their kids, which is not great.

James Patterson

#5. I often buy print books only after I've read them in some digital form or other. It's my odd way of keeping the physical presence of the best among multitudes. And I only have one shelf.

Joyce Rachelle

#6. Today, we see some "file sharing" sites that rely on fans uploading cracked copies of ebooks, and which then make money off those books by charging for downloads (via cash subscriptions or advertising). Again: I take a dim view of this. They're making money off the back of my work without paying me.

Charles Stross

#7. Here is a nice fact books and ebooks take a lot of time to be read, but audiobooks just for one day or 2 you finish them... this is a great fact!

Deyth Banger

#8. If you drop a book into the toilet, you can fish it out, dry it off and read that book. But if you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're pretty well done.

Stephen King

#9. The secret to success is no secret. Be honest in your words, be trustworthy and share value. Most people won't tell the difference, but those that do are your readers.

Robin Sacredfire

#10. Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

Priya Ardis

#11. I love books. I'm giving some hard copies of the Sacerdos Mysteries book away because I think there's something so brilliant about them. The digitisation trend is the future but people will still want the feel and smell of real books.

Elizabeth Amisu

#12. 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.

David Morrell

#13. When you take into account ebooks and Kindles and such, we're doing pretty good.

Deborah Meyler

#14. Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.

Douglas Adams

#15. He's so powerful. Who knows maybe he's advanced past eating

Priya Ardis

#16. Black is associated with power because all vibrational energies of all colors are drawn into one place, ready to be used. Wear black when you feel the need to draw energy to yourself for reviving your strength, energy, and will.

Tae Yun Kim

#17. I look up at the ceiling, at all the hardcover fiction. So very few people want it. It is operating as insulation rather than stock. The argument rages on about whether it is better to have books or ebooks, but while everyone gets heated about the choices, the hardcover fiction molders quietly away.

Deborah Meyler

#18. One day there will be no books ... Yeah right.

Maria The Lone Wolf

#19. We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

Sara Sheridan

#20. I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.

Gina Sheridan

#21. My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.

Priya Ardis

#22. Ebooks have many advantages - publishers don't have to make guesses about how many books to print, books need never go "out of print", and hard-to-find books can be easily available. So far, the only limitation seems to be finding a way for the writer to be paid.

Kate Grenville

#23. You MUST know You to do YOU!

Anne Thomas

#24. The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.

I.B. Opene

#25. I've been talking about how electronic books will come, and how important they will be, and all of a sudden Stephen King publishes one. I feel a complete idiot, as it should have been me.

Douglas Adams

#26. Fanfiction belongs online, books are published to be held.

Sky Diamond

#27. It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.

Penelope Lively

#28. I have a very positive outlook on things. It's hard to predict how actual books are going to do but I'm not freaked out about ebooks taking over. I think there are probably more active readers now because of computers and iPhones.

Kevin Sampsell

#29. It doesn't matter how long we've used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, really awesome, whereas ebooks - at least so far - are fairly limited in their awesomeness.

John Green

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

Cory Doctorow

#31. For a writer it's a genuinely interesting and hopefully profitable era that makes a variety of books available to a variety of readers, extending both what's available and who gets to read it.

Sara Sheridan

#32. This is the cusp of an age at least as exciting and as brimful of potential as the early days of the printing press.

Sara Sheridan