Even though I love pontificating on the future of book publishing, I'm developing severe innovation-fatigue, so this will be last post (at least this week) on this topic. I hope.

The Information Age columnist at the Wall Street Journal has written a piece, "The Digital Future of Books", basically about the Kindle. Even the kind, happy types at Shelf Awareness comment in today's newsletter, in reference to this article, "Stop us if you've heard this one before …"

There is a nice nugget in the article from Jeff Gomez, author of the print book, Print Is Dead.

Much is at stake. As Mr. Gomez concluded, "what's really important is the culture of ideas and innovation" books represent. But "to expect future generations to be satisfied with printed books is like expecting the BlackBerry users of today to start communicating by writing letters, stuffing envelopes and licking stamps."

The article concludes, "With innovations like the Kindle, digital media can help return to us our attention spans and extend what makes books great: words and their meaning." Unfortunately, only someone of an advanced age could've wrapped up like that (without a note of cynicism).