Assessing the impact of the internet on the publishing world has become a cottage industry in itself, and even more than a decade into the online age, no one is truly sure of what the eventual balance between paper and screen will be, and the battle between the “technorati” and the “literati” is raging behind the scenes. This weekend, at one of the publishing industry’s biggest annual events, the oft-subsumed debate exploded into the open, courtesy of the mouth of author John Updike.