There has been a lot of tension among publishers about technology. But if you ask me if I'd rather have someone watching television or someone surfing the Internet, I'd prefer the Internet because it requires some form of reading. -Richard Sarnoff

 

There has been a lot of tension among publishers about technology. But if you ask me if I'd rather have someone watching television or someone surfing the Internet, I'd prefer the Internet because it requires some form of reading.


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There has been a lot of tension among publishers about technology. But if you ask me if I'd rather have someone watching television or someone surfing the Internet, I'd prefer the Internet because it requires some form of reading.

Richard Sarnoff

Planting a flag, trying to establish some ground rules that we are comfortable with to create this new kind of commerce around book content.

Richard Sarnoff

We expect that they [Amazon] will be the first vendor. We haven't signed any license or contract.

Richard Sarnoff

We're offering a concrete business model with which we can go forward with vendor partners to allow readers access to the contents of our books in way that satisfies readers' interest in sampling and discovery.

Richard Sarnoff

[The model calls for users to gain online access, though not to be able to copy or print the page. But] if consumers absolutely demand certain kinds of access, ... it would be important to provide that.

Richard Sarnoff