Best Quote by Lina Khan

Booksellers initially thought of Amazon as their best friend. They were coming in, and they were challenging Barnes and Noble, and Borders, which were…

— Franklin Foer

To many book professionals, Amazon is a ruthless predator. The company claims to want a more literate world - and it came along when…

— George Packer

“The effect of Amazon’s monopsony in the book business is to constantly force authors and publishers to work for less money. In Bork’s view,…

— Jonathan Taplin

The publishing industry has always wanted to make books as cheaply and as ephemerally as they could; it's nothing new.

— Ben Katchor

“One of the best things about Amazon’s digital bookstore is that many of its most popular books are offered completely free of charge during…

— Steve Weber

Publishing is no longer simply a matter of picking worthy manuscripts and putting them on offer. It is now as important to market books…

— Olivia Goldsmith

[Mid-list writers are now] less greed on the part of both publishers and chain booksellers. It is easier for them to publish and sell…

— W. P. Kinsella

The Internet is disrupting every media industry...people can complain about that, but complaining is not a strategy. And Amazon is not happening to book…

— Jeff Bezos

I maintain an ongoing survey of Internet Publishing and self publishing, so that it is now possible for any writer with a book to…

— Piers Anthony

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore.

— George Packer

Barnes & Noble is able to publish price-reduced non-copyrighted works not so much because it saves the 10 percent to 15 percent of revenue…

— Mark Helprin

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