Top 93 Quotes About Ebooks
#1. 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
#2. 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.
Chip Kidd
#3. 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.
Michael A. Stackpole
#4. When you take into account ebooks and Kindles and such, we're doing pretty good.
Deborah Meyler
#5. F**k them is what I say. I hate those ebooks. They can not be the future. They may well be. I will be dead. I won't give a s**t.
Maurice Sendak
#6. 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
#7. If ebooks mean that readers' freedom must either increase or decrease, we must demand the increase.
Richard Stallman
#8. It has been aptly noted that web browsers are less Internet navigation tools than they are ebooks with highly diverse content.
Michael A. Stackpole
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Emma South
#10. 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
#11. 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.
Charles Stross
#12. Sharing your thoughts can help us improve our ebooks. We would appreciate your
Ruben Bolling
#14. 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
#15. eBooks are just digital copies of analog books. Convenient, yes. But we have the technology now to rethink what a book is.
David Conger
#16. It's not progress to take books off shelves. If one more person says this [ebooks] is the new Gutenberg, I will probably commit homicide, because the whole point of Gutenberg was to put books on shelves, not to take them off.
Jeanette Winterson
#18. I've been saying for years that readers want inexpensive ebooks.
J.A. Konrath
#19. 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
#20. Digital Distribution and the Whip Hand: Don't Get iTunesed with your eBooks
Cory Doctorow
#21. I have no problem selling ebooks for authors directly as an agent, but partnering with them is another matter.
Robert Gottlieb
#22. My grandchildren will be making money from the stories I write and sell as eBooks because they will continue to be making money.
J.A. Konrath
#23. I enjoy reading and I'm a huge kindle fan, the device you can read eBooks with. One of the best inventions of all times. I just recently purchased a Dostojewski collection, for just $1. At that rate I will probably own 3 million books soon.
Robert Pattinson
#24. The people who decided in their wisdom that we're all going to go over to ebooks, they are not readers. These are technical people. These are people who think that somehow this is progress. It isn't. It's regressive.
Jeanette Winterson
#25. I hate [ebooks]. It's like making believe there's another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of sex. There isn't another kind of book! A book is a book is a book.
Maurice Sendak
#26. 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
#28. Library users tell survey researchers that they want access to more ebooks and they want libraries to offer more technologically up-to-date services.
John Palfrey
#29. 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.
Barry Eisler
#30. 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.
Michael A. Stackpole
#31. I don't think the physical object of a book has any sacred quality, so in principle I think ebooks are great - just another way for stories and story-tellers to connect.
Kate Grenville
#32. You don't see people getting pulled over by the police for reading ebooks on their smartphones.
Jason Merkoski
#33. 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
#34. Together, Amazon and I are giving readers what they want - inexpensive, professional ebooks.
J.A. Konrath
#35. I sell a lot of ebooks from my website and encourage authors to set up their own stores.
Michael A. Stackpole
#36. 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
#37. Sighing, Brand did an act he thought never to do. He took a faerie, a goblin, and a sister and hugged them to his heart.
Maggie L. Wood
#38. 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
#39. How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?
Lewis Buzbee
#40. Consider the millions who are buying those modern Aladdin's lamps called e-readers. These magical devices, ever more beautiful and nimble in design, have only to be lightly rubbed for the genie of literature to be summoned.
Steve Wasserman
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. I would rather ride on the far distant coattails of established authors than to follow the inexperienced whose whims change with the direction of the wind.
Peggy Randall-Martin
#45. Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.
Priya Ardis
#47. 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
#49. Don't let the opinions of the average man sway you. Dream, and he thinks you're crazy. Succeed, and he thinks you're lucky. Acquire wealth, and he thinks you're greedy. Pay no attention. He simply doesn't understand
Robert Allen
#50. Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?
LHandLG
#51. Raise Your Financial Vibration" Principle: Money is a tool that helps you live your intended life.
Caroline A. Shearer
#52. 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
#53. He was a demon who dreamed of a Star..
She was a Star who dreamed of Falling..
Sarah A. Kenney
#54. I am completely unflustered by whichever medium people choose to read my words. I'm just delighted they're reading them at all!
Sara Sheridan
#55. Amazon is winning the ebook revolution, but it may lose the war.
Jason Merkoski
#56. It draws you in and you feel involved as if you're watching. - Barbara Bailey
Scarlett Avery
#58. Oh, I don't mean to infer that you're not a great guy. I'm sure you're the exception to the rule.
Jaye Frances
#59. Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?
Priya Ardis
#60. I don't choose between my house phone and my mobile. I don't choose between my laptop and my notebook. And I don't intend to choose between my e-reader and my bookshelf.
Sara Sheridan
#61. What's cheaper than a gallon of gas? An ebook. Save a dollar, stay home and read!
Shandy L. Kurth
#62. Life without a Kindle is like life without a library nearby.
Franz S. McLaren
#63. And I thought Ereaders could not become any more dreadful.
S.A. Tawks
#64. I hope that, whatever happens within the publishing industry, because of the increased control writers have of their own careers, better sales information and the advent of the internet, that ultimately this change in our working environment will be a change for the better.
Sara Sheridan
#65. Fanfiction belongs online, books are published to be held.
Sky Diamond
#67. One evening, after a particularly terrible row, the prince smashed his princess over the head with an old wooden clock and she tumbled to the floor, dead.
Brooke Warra
#68. Let go of self-condemnation and guilt!
Tae Yun Kim
#70. Readership is highly dependent upon format and distribution as much as it is on content.
Sara Sheridan
#72. 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
#73. He'd wanted to mend her just like his mother had mended his favorite teddy bear when his arm had come loose after too much play. He offered her his pudding cup instead.
Brooke Warra
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. All cats are gray in the dark. And besides, her actions have less to do with her, and everything to do with you.
Jaye Frances
#77. Ah yes, now you're beginning to feel it. It's so satisfying to see my best efforts coming to fruition. Undoubtedly one of the most gratifying rewards of my profession. It would warm my heart - if I had one.
Jaye Frances
#78. It seems to me that anyone whose library consists of a Kindle lying on a table is some sort of bloodless nerd.
Penelope Lively
#79. To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.
Ray Bradbury
#80. Reading for enjoyment won't die altogether, but this Ereader device has the potential to repel those less imaginative from fiction. And that could have an undesirable domino effect.
S.A. Tawks
#81. The faerie queen's compassion was even more frightening than her anger.
Maggie L. Wood
#82. If you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're done.
Stephen King
#83. 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
#84. The first step to Happiness is deciding exactly what kind of life you want. That kinda comes from experience.
I.B. Opene
#86. My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac
you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.
Priya Ardis
#87. I don't have time for invisible books when there are so many real books to read.
Gina Sheridan
#88. We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.
Sara Sheridan
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. He's so powerful. Who knows maybe he's advanced past eating
Priya Ardis
#93. Lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food.
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