Today's WSJ (sub) highlights, once again, the plight of publishers (this time, it's everyone who does print, not just books) and their fight to maintain relevance in an increasingly digital, entertainment driven world. Having just finished a healthy discussion on why aren't student's reading more from their tablet PCs in the form of e-books, I submit that the growing e-book trend will do something to stem the tide of people turning away from reading. Especially if Microsoft and Toshiba have their way and the mobile, tablet based computing medium becomes a ubiquitous phenomenon, reading e-books, or even 'consuming containers of digital media' (imagine if all of the process flow diagrams you read in college were interactive and animated! Would that have made you want to learn?? :)