I think the definition of a book is changing.

I'm skeptical that the novel will be 're-invented.'

One of the things we don't do very well at Amazon is a me-too product offering. So when I look at physical retail stores, it's very well served, the people who operate physical retail stores are very good at it...the question we would always have before we would embark on such a thing is: What's the idea? What would we do that would be different? How would it be better? We don't want to just do things because we can do them...we don't want to be redundant.

That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.