Book Quote by Jonathan Zittrain

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

A dreary censorship, and self-censorship, has been imposed on books by the centralization of the book industry.

— Erica Jong

Everywhere, publishers are being squeezed out.

— Anthony Horowitz

Amazon has massively - and I'm trying not to use this particular word, but I can't not use it here - disrupted the business…

— Lina Khan

“Don't give up on the power of books to change lives and the world. As everything goes digital, book formats will morph, but their…

— David Marshall

Digital texts are all well and good, but books on shelves are a presence in your life. As such, they become a part of…

— Michael Dirda

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

Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

— Jason Epstein

Books seem to me to be pestilent things, and infect all that trade in them...with something very perverse and brutal. Printers, binders, sellers, and…

— John Locke

“Technological change is discontinuous. The monks in their scriptoria did not invent the printing press, horse breeders did not invent the motorcar, and the…

— Jason Epstein

“the sooner we can accelerate the adoption of digital books, the better it will be for libraries and the more likely that some of…

— Jason Merkoski

“But see, publishers don’t actually know what readers want. They know what distributors want. Joe and Jane Smith? No clue. Barnes & Noble? Wal-Mart?…

— Sean Platt