After a holiday season where many of us witnessed an exchange of electronic reading devices or e-books, an article in the Los Angeles Times shed some light on the future of the corporeal book.  The article, by David L. Ulin, provides statistics on electronic reading which were fairly surprising: digital publishing, despite growth rates nearing 200% in 2010, still represents only 9% of the literary market.  The upshot of this is that, for now, people are still reading books.  And a handful of individuals are trying to keep it that way.