The Painted Darkness by Brian Keene, Brian James Freeman Page B
Authors: Brian Keene, Brian James Freeman
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Lesley Kagen:
I love the smell of book pages, the crack of the binding. Hanging out in bookstores, bullshitting with other readers. I’m going to miss all of that like I miss Ramblers and the Andy Devine Show and Ike. Yet time...it gallops. Relentlessly and without regard for who is left bereft beneath its hooves. Saddle up, kids.
Stephen King**:
E-publishing may or may not be the wave of the future; about that I care not a fiddler’s fart, believe me. For me, going that route was simply another way of trying to keep myself fully involved in the process of writing stories. And then getting them to as many people as possible.
JA Konrath:
Ebooks will replace print. I guarantee it. Then, once print is gone, ebooks will run for office on third party tickets and win the majority of seats in Congress. By 2024, an ebook will be elected President of the United States, and will make it mandatory that all cute women between the ages of 18 and 35 wear bikinis 24/7.
We can’t fight this future, so we might as well just accept it.
Gayle Lynds:
Speaking as a former advocate of the quill pen as the most desirable writing instrument, I am bowled over by the fast growth of ebooks. For us authors, the main difference between ebooks and books is format, which means we’re still going to write stories and hope readers enjoy them whether on paper or on screen. At the same time, the skyrocketing sales of ebooks is a clarion call to the industry that there’s an exciting new game in town. I’m hoping this ultimately means more readers. The world would be a better place.
Carolyn Parkhurst:
Clearly, the growing popularity of eBooks is going to change things, but I think we’ll all adapt, in the same way that we all survived the change from records to CDs to mp3s. But there are some things that we lose, as readers, when we move away from reading actual, paper books: the ability to flip back a few pages quickly to remind yourself who a character is; the pleasure of selecting a book from a crowded bookstore table because you like the cover art; the surreptitious glances we cast at other people riding on the subway or waiting for an airplane to see what they’re all reading. It’s always been a quick way to make a connection with someone—”Oh, how are you liking that? I loved his last one.” Ever since my first novel was published, I’ve been hoping that someday I’ll see someone reading one of my books in public. Now, it’s possible that I’ll walk past someone reading my book and never even know it.
Anne Perry:
I am not up on ebooks, but I realise it is a technical advance that has got to happen and if it makes people think and is a useful way of communicating ideas then I guess I am in favour of it; however I do not see it totally replacing the conventional book!
Jodi Picoult:
I think that we are going to see the continued rise of the eBook as publishing finally wraps its head around pleasing the consumer and providing reading material in multiple formats. Your typical eBook reader is a valued customer who wants a book NOW, and is willing to pay for it. To this end, publishers will eventually understand that price wars with Amazon, etc. which end up with the eBook being withheld and the customer being the loser are going to cost them readers. Ultimately I hope we will see book ‘packages’—where for a premium a reader can purchase one book in three formats: hard copy, audio, and eBook—which allows the reader to enjoy the experience of the book multiple ways, at multiple times of the day, depending on where he/she is and what he/ she is doing.
MJ Rose:
So the big news in publishing is there are no game changers anymore. We must bury the words. The game changer was the internet way back more than 12 years ago. Now anything and everything is possible. And anything that can happen will happen. Not all of it is good and not all of it is bad. But
Lesley Kagen:
I love the smell of book pages, the crack of the binding. Hanging out in bookstores, bullshitting with other readers. I’m going to miss all of that like I miss Ramblers and the Andy Devine Show and Ike. Yet time...it gallops. Relentlessly and without regard for who is left bereft beneath its hooves. Saddle up, kids.
Stephen King**:
E-publishing may or may not be the wave of the future; about that I care not a fiddler’s fart, believe me. For me, going that route was simply another way of trying to keep myself fully involved in the process of writing stories. And then getting them to as many people as possible.
JA Konrath:
Ebooks will replace print. I guarantee it. Then, once print is gone, ebooks will run for office on third party tickets and win the majority of seats in Congress. By 2024, an ebook will be elected President of the United States, and will make it mandatory that all cute women between the ages of 18 and 35 wear bikinis 24/7.
We can’t fight this future, so we might as well just accept it.
Gayle Lynds:
Speaking as a former advocate of the quill pen as the most desirable writing instrument, I am bowled over by the fast growth of ebooks. For us authors, the main difference between ebooks and books is format, which means we’re still going to write stories and hope readers enjoy them whether on paper or on screen. At the same time, the skyrocketing sales of ebooks is a clarion call to the industry that there’s an exciting new game in town. I’m hoping this ultimately means more readers. The world would be a better place.
Carolyn Parkhurst:
Clearly, the growing popularity of eBooks is going to change things, but I think we’ll all adapt, in the same way that we all survived the change from records to CDs to mp3s. But there are some things that we lose, as readers, when we move away from reading actual, paper books: the ability to flip back a few pages quickly to remind yourself who a character is; the pleasure of selecting a book from a crowded bookstore table because you like the cover art; the surreptitious glances we cast at other people riding on the subway or waiting for an airplane to see what they’re all reading. It’s always been a quick way to make a connection with someone—”Oh, how are you liking that? I loved his last one.” Ever since my first novel was published, I’ve been hoping that someday I’ll see someone reading one of my books in public. Now, it’s possible that I’ll walk past someone reading my book and never even know it.
Anne Perry:
I am not up on ebooks, but I realise it is a technical advance that has got to happen and if it makes people think and is a useful way of communicating ideas then I guess I am in favour of it; however I do not see it totally replacing the conventional book!
Jodi Picoult:
I think that we are going to see the continued rise of the eBook as publishing finally wraps its head around pleasing the consumer and providing reading material in multiple formats. Your typical eBook reader is a valued customer who wants a book NOW, and is willing to pay for it. To this end, publishers will eventually understand that price wars with Amazon, etc. which end up with the eBook being withheld and the customer being the loser are going to cost them readers. Ultimately I hope we will see book ‘packages’—where for a premium a reader can purchase one book in three formats: hard copy, audio, and eBook—which allows the reader to enjoy the experience of the book multiple ways, at multiple times of the day, depending on where he/she is and what he/ she is doing.
MJ Rose:
So the big news in publishing is there are no game changers anymore. We must bury the words. The game changer was the internet way back more than 12 years ago. Now anything and everything is possible. And anything that can happen will happen. Not all of it is good and not all of it is bad. But
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