Will the ebook kill off the print
book?"
Every time I hear that question, I think about the "paperless
office." Back in the '80s, the rise of word processors and e-mail
convinced a lot of people that paper would vanish. Why print
anything when you could simply squirt documents around
electronically?
We all know how that turned out. Paper use exploded; indeed,
firms that adopted e-mail used 40 percent more paper. That's
because even in a world of screens, paper offers unique ways to
organize and share your thoughts, as Abigail Sellen and Richard
Harper noted inThe Myth of the Paperless Office. There's also this
technology truism to consider: When you make something easier to
do, people do more of it. Now that every offi...