Vancouver Sun: 2009 June 27
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/fp/technologies+could+bring+books+save+them/1738768/story.html
"If a book could talk, it might well repeat the old Mark Twain line 'The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.'
Certainly, there have been many such reports -- obituaries, really -- about books. And this is not a recent phenomenon: In 1894, Scribner's Magazine published an article titled The End of Books, in which a man named Arthur Blackcross predicted that books would be replaced by new technologies."
