“The lack of video, the lack of audio, the lack of ways to change the forking outcomes of plot is a feature of literature, not a bug. And, as it turns out, books are interactive. They’re recipes for the imagination. Conversely, video is restrictive—it tells you what things look like, what they sound…”— Richard Nash, amazon.comTagged: Media Theory, Books, Power Of Reading, Why You Should Read Instead of Watch TV, Book Technology
“Publishing has no particular ability to discern what is good or not, what is successful or not. This is true not just at the level of predicting commercial success, but also at predicting critical success. I already discussed great writers who almost vanished, books that slipped through the corporat…”— Richard Nash, amazon.comTagged: Random Publishing, Lose Control, Publishing Strategies, Death of the Editor, No Arbitrators
“By defining books as against technology, we deny the power of the book.”— Richard Nash, amazon.comTagged: Thought Technology, Books