“On a recent trip to an empty Borders I feared for my profession, not to mention the publishing industry. Nearly all the stuff in their shop is already available digitally online. And once books go too, perhaps the empty bookshops will be replaced with download “hubs” where we can buy Costalottashmucks coffee and download the latest tunes, novels and movies from the matrix while money trickles out of our bank accounts, all funnelled through our mobile phones. The real nub of the issue for me is that screens will now mediate the text.”