‘Reading and writing are doing just fine’

There’s an interesting story over on the Publishers Weekly site about technology’s impact on the book industry.

To anyone in the newspaper industry — like me — the conclusions ought to sound awfully familiar:

The panel, moderated by the Times book editor, David Ullin, included former PW editor-in-chief, publishing consultant and author of So Many Books, So Little Time Sara Nelson; Richard Nash, former head of Soft Skull Press; Otis Chandler, founder of the Goodreads Web site; and Patrick Brown, Vr