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Now In Paper-Vision: The Future of Books. And TV.
Nerd World — ... Article #2: My thoughts about the future of publishing. Which ... yeah, I know. But think about it. If you follow the publishing biz, which you probably don't, you know that it's in catastrophic disarray. My point, basically, is that the book as we know it is largely a product of a unique confluence of money and technology: ...

Lev Grossman on literature in the digital age
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — ... Over on Time Magazine, Lev Grossman has written an article looking at the future of the publishing industry in the new "digital age." ...

(Credit, Oil, IT, and) Paper Ain't Free, So Don't Waste It.
John Battelle's Searchblog — ... on one big premise: Waste paper. Somewhere in the late 18th or 19th century paper became so cheap that entire economic systems could be built that presumed it was actually beneficial to use more of it than was needed. Paper was a revelation - there's probably a great story to be written comparing the cultural and economic impact of paper to that of the web (it's probably been written, and I missed it). Take the book publishing industry, for example. As a recent Time piece on publishing put it: Publishers sell books to bookstores on a consignment ...

Eric Flint vs. Lev Grossman on the future of the publishing industry
TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home — In Eric Flint’s latest "Salvos Against Big Brother" column in the current issue of Jim Baen’s Universe, Flint rebuts the Lev Grossman column I covered in this TeleRead post. Flint finds a great deal to criticize in the Grossman column, which starts with a tale of an author finding success after self-publishing and goes on to make assertions about the future of the publishing industry. Flint feels that the success story is not supported by the facts, and that most of Grossman’s subsequent assertions are also ...