Read here: ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/u/uzanne/octave/end/

Yes, Uzanne is taking the piss, but 120 years later he seems remarkably prescient; the exact technology aside, he gives a decent description not only of where the publishing and news industry has been and is going in the early 21st century, but even outlines why; the excess of information, the need to have it available at short notice, the ability of anyone to get published on their own terms... He even acknowledges that with the death of the book comes an even greater availability of books (or novels). It's remarkable how, everytime something happens that leads someone to declare the book dead, starting with Socrates through Gutenberg to Edison to cinema to the computer to the e-reader, we also get access to far more literature than we had before the book "died".