Because Quote by Virginia Postrel

Printing and transporting paper is very expensive, and e-books eliminate the expensive four-color printing, the higher quality paper, the ocean shipping, the customs clearance,…

— Dan Poynter

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

— Amanda Hocking

The nice thing about e-books is that if you're sitting on the beach and you finish one Elin Hilderbrand novel and don't want to…

— Elin Hilderbrand

I think e-books are terrific in their own right. I love being able to get on a plane and basically carry around seven books…

— James Patterson

Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any…

— Rudy Rucker

I had a talk with the president of my publisher, and he averred that e-books are dropping off . So I wonder if the…

— Rick Moody

You don't always have to have an e-book. You can have a real book. I'd like to see the old way maintain.

— Oliver Stone

I expected higher prices for some books, but [there would be] flexibility for other books,

— Eddy Cue

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

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

Electronic books are a bad thing because they cannot be accumulated on shelves to remind you of your past, to impress your neighbors and…

— Anonymous

There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel.

— Ray Bradbury