Authors Quote by David Conyers

I'm going to introduce BookShots, which are these under-150-page books that I'm launching, and they're under $5. They just launched in Australia. I already…

— James Patterson

The publishing industry provides a viable channel which enables a wide distribution of books that we're not seeing in any other way. Unfortunately, self-publishing…

— Sylvia Day

Which is the healthier kind of literary diversity: an un-gate-kept self-published book world, run substantially through Amazon? Or our current book world, which is…

— Lev Grossman

I hope that books don't go the way of albums and CD, large format albums, and physical product.

— Dwight Yoakam

My stuff gets published in some countries as fiction and in some countries as fantasy. It's just where they think it will do best…

— Neil Gaiman

“Despite the rising popularity of the downloadable e-text, I still care about physical books, gravitate to handsome editions and pretty dust jackets, and enjoy…

— Michael Dirda

Traditional publishers will be dominant, and they should be because they really do assure quality. But eBooks, which are huge already, are going to…

— Steven Pressfield

As for collaboration - I have done a lot, 26 books, and found publishers increasingly resistive to them. It's not that the books are…

— Piers Anthony

I'm floating between multiple media. I really wish you could buy the hardcover book and it would come with the digital download and audible…

— Atul Gawande

The dirty little secret of publishing is that, all along, each book sold has had an average of 5 readers. That's an 80% "piracy"…

— Charles Stross

Maybe it's the readers that make a book global.

— Maaza Mengiste

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…

— Richard Curtis