Last week’s E-book publishing conference in New York had everyone pondering the future of printed books. “Microsoft’s vice president in charge of electronic books and ‘tablet’ computing devices, reiterated the company’s prediction that the last print edition of The New York Times would appear in 2018, and you could feel the thought-wave slither through the room like an eel. 2018? Hey, I was planning to be around in 2018 – and with some time to look at the paper finally, too.” – The Atlantic