The line between book and Internet will disappear - O'Reilly Radar

The line between book and Internet will disappear - O'Reilly Radar:

"But everything exists within the EPUB spec already to make the next obvious -- but frightening -- step: let books live properly within the Internet, along with websites, databases, blogs, Twitter, map systems, and applications.

"There is little talk of this anywhere in the publishing industry that I know of, but the foundation is there for the move -- as it should be. And if you are looking at publishing with any kind of long-term business horizon, this is where you should be looking[...]

"I don't know what smart things people will start to do when books are truly of the Internet.

"But I do know that it will happen, and the 'Future of Publishing' has something to do with this. The current world of ebooks is just a transition to a digitally connected book publishing ecosystem that won't look anything like the book world we live in now."