Quotes About Electronic Books

#1. Electronic books lack gravity.

James Dempsey

#2. Electronic books are junk.

Ray Bradbury

#3. I am against electronic books. they make real books obsolete, denying the poor and economically challenged freedom.

Darnell Lamont Walker

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

Steven Pinker

#5. More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories.

Isabel Allende

#6. Electronic books live out of sight and out of mind. But printed books have body, presence.

Will Schwalbe

#7. Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and colleagues, and to help prevent divorces thanks to the sheer bother of arguing over who owns what.

J.P. Donleavy

#8. 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

#9. reading their books on electronic gizmos

Roland Smith

#10. Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance. Yet, that very idea has motivated me.

James Nachtwey

#11. Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen.

Blake Crouch

#12. Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch.

Will Self

#13. In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature.

Bill Vaughan

#14. Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them.

Al Feldstein

#15. Books are the most powerful tool in the human arsenal, that reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose - electronic (even though that wasn't for her) or printed, or audio - is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in human conversation.

Will Schwalbe

#16. I never work with one inspiration in mind. I like to take things from everywhere and piece it together.It's never a theme or a trick.

Narciso Rodriguez

#17. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men.

Winston S. Churchill

#18. I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book.

Amanda Hocking

#19. Reading all kinds of books, in whatever format you choose
electronic or printed or audio
is the grandest entertainment, and also is how you take part in the human conversation.

Will Schwalbe

#20. Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't.

Jon Scieszka

#21. To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing.

Elmore Leonard

#22. I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose?

Susan Orlean

#23. As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

Robert Darnton

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

Deborah Meyler

#25. Hopefully, I'll be remembered as the person who brought an end to Christianity.

Marilyn Manson

#26. I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure.

Khaled Hosseini

#27. I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared.

Nicholson Baker

#28. How cruel that mankind was forced to conform to the global electronic experience. But all other options had vanished. There no longer existed a country to escape to ("country" - also, what a quaint notion) where people read books and had lives that became stories.

Douglas Coupland

#29. Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself.

Ruth Glick

#30. A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth.

George Carlin

#31. We are forced by the major publishers to include electronic rights in the contracts we make with publishers for new books. And there's very little we can do about that.

Richard Curtis