Book Quote by Scott Adams

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

— Ben Katchor

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

— Steven Pinker

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

Some day, as soon as a book is printed it will be simultaneously put into digital form. That will be a wonderful research tool,…

— Anne Fadiman

I think we are waiting for an e-book that even non-techies can be comfortable with. From my point of view, the biggest change is…

— Terry Pratchett

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

— Dave Eggers

The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed…

— Cory Doctorow

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

— Jason Epstein

“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

I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich,…

— Andy Rooney

First, people don't read novels off screens, and they don't have a tendency to shell out real money for books when they don't retain…

— Jack L. Chalker

I think if you took away all the designers and automated the process tomorrow, the end result would be really, really dissatisfying and disturbing…

— Khoi Vinh