Tom Peters Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• If I read a book that cost me $20 and I get one good idea, I've gotten one of the greatest bargains of all time.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Ideas, Cost

• I don't believe in holy writ. Buy fifty books or twenty-five books, take three weeks off, read them and make up your own theory. The fact that you end up literally burning twenty-two out of twenty-five books is beside the point.

  Tom Peters

  Believe, Book, Reading

• Books were rare,expensive, time-consuming to create and copy, and difficult to transport. That is why collections ofprint-based books developed around centers of religious belief, learning, and wealth. It was cheaper andeasier for people to come to the collection than for the collection, or parts of the collection, to go to thepeople.

  Tom Peters

  Religious, Book, People

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• When it comes to e-book playback devices and software, I have always thought that the emphasis on ergonomic concerns as a tipping point for the end-user population was misplaced.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Population, Tipping

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• I don't read many business books. I read good fiction. Business is about people, so my favorite business books are anything by Dickens.

  Tom Peters

  Book, People, Fiction

• Collections of books and other documents, either printed or electronic, are a form of congregation.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Form, Collections

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• I think economics, content, and the ability to interact with content in new and different ways are what will drive the adoption of e-books.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Thinking, Adoption

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Writing, Ideas

• A vibrant, rich, growing corpus of public-domain books is a vital public good - similar to parks, the infrastructure of basic services, and other hallmarks of any advanced society.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Growing, Parks

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• I still read quite a few printed books, but if something is available in digital format I do not print it before I read it.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Digital, Print

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• I endorse a lot of people - sometimes people say I endorse too many books. And my response has always been the same: If I can get one case study that can give me one good idea that I can implement for $25, or for these days one-third of that on Kindle, I've gotten a very good deal.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Ideas, People

• I want the public as well as libraries and schools to enjoy unlimited access to public-domain books. This means no charges for these kind of texts themselves.

  Tom Peters

  Book, School, Mean

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• MP3 players and flash memory devices are good for data storage and playback of music and digital talking books, but they offer little or nothing in the way of visual presentation of information and communication.

  Tom Peters

  Memories, Book, Communication

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• Authors and publishers want fair compensation and a means of protecting content through digital rights management. Vendors and technology companies want new markets for e-book reading devices and other hardware. End-users most of all want a wide range and generous amount of high-quality content for free or at reasonable costs. Like end-users, libraries want quality, quantity, economy, and variety as well as flexible business models.

  Tom Peters

  Reading, Book, Mean

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• I wrote the book based on a blog that I keep. I also tweet. I don't think that for an incredibly old fart I'm totally behind the power curve. I really believe that the essentials of human relationships remain the same.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Believe, Thinking

  Source: iveybusinessjournal.com

• Ultimately, I think that the growth and sustainability of the e-book movement depends on authors and end-users (readers).

  Tom Peters

  Book, Thinking, Growth

  Source: www.researchgate.net

• Had Twitter been invented earlier, my books would have been shorter.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Has Beens

• I would not be surprised to see interesting new forms of expression and literary genres develop as the e-book movement matures.

  Tom Peters

  Book, Literary Genre, Expression

  Source: www.researchgate.net

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