We reserve cinematic viewings only for films long-anticipated – ones we couldn’t bear to watch on anything other than a huge, looming screen.

Those ‘almost and ‘maybe’ movies can be staved off until the DVD comes out, or until one manages to download an illegal copy.

How would you like your news served today? In a newspaper, on television, over the radio? Oh how silly, of course you’d like it on your… what – laptop, iPad, cellphone?

Next, where would you like your news to come from: BBC, NYT, Al Jazeera? Or do you prefer smaller, more ‘local’ news sources? Why not try a link posted on Twitter from that semi-famous person you follow? Or a status update from a friend who’s watching the Olympics, live?

Presenting the information overload.

“To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.”  -Kenko Yoshida-

The UK Publisher’s Association released its statistics in early May: consumer e-book sales increased by 366% in 2011. Overall digital sales grew by 54%.

The Pew Research Center found that 21% of Americans have read an e-book, and the average digital reader has read more books than non-e-book consumers.

At such an expansion rate, what hope is left for regular books?