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Students do everything on laptops these days, so I definitely think electronic books are a trend that's going to expand. -- Steven Pinker
More and more books are published every year. If people were not reading them, they wouldn't be published. We are now reading electronic books or whatever else, but people are still reading, and people still need stories. -- Isabel Allende
Electronic books are junk. -- Ray Bradbury
I read actual physical books and have thus far avoided the electronic lure. -- Khaled Hosseini
I priced my books at what I would want to spend on an electronic book. -- Amanda Hocking
To me, a book is a book, an electronic device is not, and love of books was the reason I started writing. -- Elmore Leonard
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 little we can do about that. -- Richard Curtis
I wonder what book signings will be like when most of the books we read are electronic. Will authors sign something else? A flyer, perhaps? A special kind of card devised for the purpose? -- Susan Orlean
I like shelves full of books in a library, but if all books become electronic, the task of big research libraries remains the same - keep what's published in the form in which it appeared. -- Nicholson Baker
Avoid demonizing television, computer games, and new technologies. Electronic media may compete for kids' attention, but we're not going to get kids reading by badmouthing other entertainment. Admit that TV and games can do things books can't. -- Jon Scieszka
Unfortunately for me, most of the books I'd want to reprint were written for savvy publishers like Harlequin and Berkley who have held on to electronic rights. But I do have another option: Publish new e-books myself. -- Ruth Glick
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007. -- Robert Darnton
Kids are no longer interested in reading comic books; they've got television and the electronic games that they can bury themselves in like ostriches. They don't have to pay attention to what's going on in the world around them. -- Al Feldstein
Sometimes it occurs to me that the job of a serious cultural critic mostly consists in telling the generality of people that their opinions - on films, on books, on all manner of widgets, gadgets and even the latest electronic fidgets - simply aren't up to scratch. -- Will Self
I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him. -- Fergie
I am very grateful to the electronic world for making my life easier, but there is something about holding a book - the smell and the world of association. Even when e-books are perfected, as they surely will be, it will be like being in bed with a very well-made robot rather than a warm, soft, human being whom you love. -- Anne Fadiman
Like people would ever want to read books on an electronic screen. -- Blake Crouch
Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation. -- Tom Peters
In the electronic age, books, words and reading are not likely to remain sufficiently authoritative and central to knowledge to justify literature. -- Bill Vaughan

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