Peter Smirniotopoulos

National expert in urban redevelopment, housing policy, and project and public finance

Let's not wait another 50 years to reform the primary and secondary education systems in this country, because we can't afford not to. Let's start now.

Andrew Losowsky

Senior Books Editor, The Huffington Post

E-books are praised in terms of what they aren't: heavy, tree killers, limited in distribution, of fixed text size. Not enough focus has been put on what an e-book itself could become.

Steve Kettmann

Publisher, Wellstone Books

Count me among those who would much rather hold a book in my hand as I read, pen at the ready, rather than clicking through glowing text on a screen.

Warren Adler

Author

Recently, I moved to another apartment. While moving in itself is a traumatic event, my principal problem is books. I have a huge collection of books.

Kirk Cheyfitz

CEO and Chief Editorial Officer, Story Worldwide

Sticking to retreads makes no use of all the powerful technological innovations now at our command. But creating tablet cartoons has the potential to kill off reading altogether.

Ebong Eka

CPA, personal finance expert and small business champion

Maybe it was good for the consumer that the AT&T and T-mobile merger didn't happen. More importantly, with the exponential increase in data usage, "Can You Hear Me Now? (TM)" will no longer apply. Just send me an email instead!

Julie Gerstenblatt

Author, Lauren Takes Leave

I heard about this book from a friend, who spoke in hushed tones over the tops of her children's heads as we waited in line for tables one Sunday at the local diner. That's how you know a book is really dirty, by the way, because of the hushed tones.

Warren Adler

Author

Nevertheless, the technology addiction cannot be ignored as a competitor to reading. Indeed, some prognosticators may be right in citing the eventual rise of the tablet as a device of choice for everything under the techie sun, including reading.

Victoria Foyt

Author, Screenwriter, Actress

I'm no Luddite, and yet I draw the line when it comes to reading e-books.

Dave Scheidt

Writer

I like holding a comic in my hands, I like the smell. I like having a huge box of them to browse through. I like having a huge bookshelf of comics that people can browse and open and inspect. I like to lend people books.

Karen Dionne

Author, Freezing Point, Boiling Point

If the Internet seemed slow last Sunday, it might have been because around the world, literally millions of new e-reader owners spent a fair part of the day downloading e-books.

Rochelle Jewel Shapiro

Psychic and author

What will our sensory memories be of books in the digital era? As I sniff my Kindle, I only get a sense of something blocking air, a plastic odor -- like a straw that you've been biting on.

Andy Wilson

blogger and activist in Austin, TX

The Kindle Fire and Nook Tablet are amazing gadgets, not to mention their e-ink black and white cousins and the various other tablets and the iPad. But now that they're out of the box, what to do with them?

Daniel Haarburger

Designer, Stanford student

The most compelling reason for a Kindle word processor is that it gives more to the user. It makes a better product, and that in the end is the only thing that really matters.

Harry Freedman

London based Career Adviser and Author thecareeradvicecentre.com

Handwriting is in decline. But writing is on the increase. Paradoxical isn't it? Think about it. How often do you pick up a pen these days? I bet it'...

Jason Gilbert

A widely circulated story in Sunday's New York Times questioned whether or not Amazon's Kindle Fire would become, as the article's URL had it, "the Ed...