“The book is dead.”

“Teenagers don’t read anymore”

Among others, Newsweek and Britannica stopped publishing their print edition.

The future of publishing

How many people use social media? (Table)

"The net is like a huge vandalized library (...) Surfing is the process of sifting through this disorganized mess in the hope of coming across some useful fragments of text and images that can be related to other fragments. The net is even worse than a vandalized library because thousands of additional unorganized fragments are added daily by the myriad of cranks, sages, and persons with time on their hands who launch unfiltered messages into cyberspace.”

     Michael Gorman, "The Corruption of Cataloging"- Library Journal 120 (15 September, 1995):34 cited by Barbara Burd,
      Business Librarian, Regent University Library