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Though e-books are rising in popularity, print remains the foundation of Americans' reading habits. Most people who read e-books also read print books, and just 4% of readers are "e-book only." Audiobook listeners have the most diverse reading habits overall, while fewer print readers consume books in other formats.

Excellent read from  book designer "I want to look at where printed books stand in respect to digital publishing, why we historically haven't read long-form text on screens and how the iPad is wedging itself in the middle of everything. In doing so I think we can find the line in the sand to define when content should be printed or digitized. This is a conversation for books-makers, web-heads, content-creators, authors and designers. For people who love beautifully made things. And for the storytellers who are willing to take risks and want to consider the most appropriate shape and media for their yarns."

Google aims to make reading an e-book better than reading a print book for all types of books. 

Google aims to make reading an e-book better than reading a print book for all types of books. 

Many new releases have design elements usually reserved for special occasions - deckle edges, colored endpapers, high-quality paper and exquisite jackets that push the creative boundaries of bookmaking. If e-books are about ease and expedience, the publishers reason, then print books need to be about physical beauty and the pleasures of owning, not just reading.

'Out of Print' Doc Examines The End of Print Books and What It Portends People have used books as a reliable tool to transmit and preserve information, ideas, and stories for hundreds of years. E-books have enjoyed wide use for only about six years - counting from when Amazon introduced its Kindle in 2007.

Google is planning to become the worlds largest bookstore with a print-on-demand agreement to give access to two million out-of-print books.

In 2007 the JISC national e-books observatory project was set up to undertake market research to help e-book publishers, aggregators, libraries and funding bodies understand the behaviours of e-book users and to assess the impact of free at-the-point of use course text e-books on traditional print sales to students

Perhaps soon audio books and e-books will be combined, and parents will no longer have to read to their children! Interesting that their is a publisher out there adding/expanding print.

Publishers need to recognize that readers are shifting to ereading, and for this group if it's not in e-book format it doesn't exist.

And an astonishing 91 per cent of the 20,000 people polled in the survey said they would now not bother to buy printed books if they could find a digital version.

I use my Kindle / iPad for all of my reading. Once I began using them, a strong preference for reading on them developed.

America's obsession with digital tablets is driving a boon in e-book reading, a new survey shows, a trend that is dampening the appeal of printed books and shaking the centuries-old publishing business.

Screen reading to children may not be as beneficial as reading print books.

Screen reading to children may not be as beneficial as reading print books.

Apparently ebooks and other electronic devices so dominate the world of children that there's a need for a children's book designed to explain what a print book isn't.

Some stats on the state of print.

The digital age may end the free advertising that publishers got from readers of their books in printed form.

E-books are cheaper to produce than print volumes, but consumers may not realize that expenses like overhead and royalties are still in effect, publishers say.

What's hot off the presses come Thursday? Any one of the more than 2 million books old enough to fall out of copyright into the public domain. Over the

A very interesting collection of essays on the future of the book and publishing.  Free to read online and available in print from O'Reilly.

Fascinating read on bundling print books with free e-books.