E-Books in Higher Education: Nearing the End of the Era of Hype?.

© 2 0 0 8 M a r k R . N e l s o n a n d E D U C A U S E Why do screen reading advocates frequently assume that continuation of print genres is at the expense of screen reading? Why do they assume that any shift away from capital intensive printing will never shift back to less centralized, less costly local print genres? And why is the rapture displacement to screen reading always 12–18 months in the future? —futureofthebook.com, July 19, 2007 (http://www.futureofthebook.com/ 2007/07/19)