I have been thinking about and commenting on Damien Walter's blog entry "Are books and the Internet about to merge?" over at The Guardian. Walter has presented the possibility of a very near future-- perhaps in the next few years-- where all or nearly all books are not only digitized, but internet-based. I am thinking by "internet" he doesn't just mean Wikipedia-style content generation, but also app-style content that comes completed and packaged for consumption without all the constant editing and monitoring that Wikipedia publishing entails. He presents a definite possibility, as technology increases at an exponential rate, but as I say in my comments, advocates of epublishing can't forego the continued need and desire for print publishing entirely, at least not in the near future of the next few years. The internet tends to open doors to new possibilities rather than closing them to old ones.
Also, Walter briefly touches on the "objectification" of the book, which I discussed a couple of entries ago, and which gets some heated attention in the comment threads-- I definitely recommend checking this article out.
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