Gauging the Impact of Electronic Technologies on Print

As new technologies and innovations continue to impact communication tools and methods, one thing is very clear—the role of print is irrevocably changing. The tactile pleasures of paper—whether a book, newspaper or magazine—are diminishing, and in some cases gone forever. For those printed pages that offered beautiful output quality at the lowest cost per page, but were only printed in larger volumes than actually required, there is no happy ending.