Richard Sarnoff Quotes

We've been talking to multiple vendors, and evidently, our conversations with Amazon yielded some fruit... because they announced their own initiative on the heels of our announcement. We can now hope or expect them to be our fist vendor. - 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

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

We believe that it is important for publishers to be innovative in providing digital options for consumers to access our content. - 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. - 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

[The Random House model calls for consumers to be able to buy access to a book for, say, 5 cents a page for most books and higher amounts, like 25 cents a page, for cookbooks and other specialty publications. It 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

[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

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