[Forbes] Neal Stephenson, Digital Publishing, and Why Books Will Survive

We are always just “that close” to putting paper publishing out of its misery and tossing words like “binding” into the same nostalgia heap where “film” and “camera ready graphics” live. Yet the success of books like "Reamde" tells a different story. Their defiance of digital bliss has little or nothing to do with what’s more efficient or sustainable or convenient.