Guy LeCharles Gonzalez at Publishing Perspectives

Books are one of the oldest, most efficient, highly intuitive information technologies ever created. Anyone can pick up a book and figure out how to read it, even if it’s translated manga kept in its original right-to-left format. They can dog-ear a page, or write notes in the margins; share it with as many friends as they’d like to; or, simply put it on their bookshelf and never think twice about whether or not it will be there the next morning, the next week, or the next year.