What's Next for the Book? Strategies for survival in the digital era

It is not hard to predict a fruitful future for the printed book. They are to be seen everywhere; some are even being read. Their readers, however, are displaying some curious additional desk-bound habits, like the urgent sending of text messages by phone; the listening by headphone to music, or lectures, or podcasts on an iPod or MP3 player; the posting of updates, photos and status displays to social networking sites; Twittering, Tumblr-ing and blogging; navigating through two or four or eight web-browser tabs in search of information; the emailing as attachments of essays and papers, PDFs and entire digitized books; and the cutting and pasting of bits of books, for use, suitably ‘revised’ in papers, dissertations, reports and in other books.