the anti-climatic brave new world of digital literature?

A defense of e-publishing from just two years ago.  How fast we are moving.

Robert Coover: “It took a millennia of cuneiform writing and the demise of the [Sumerian] civilization that invented it before the first known extended narrative was composed using it. 

Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, from her 1979 study The Printing Press as an Agent of Change: “[t]he output of early presses drew on a backlog of scribal work; the first century of printing produced a bookish culture that was not very different from that produced by scribes.”