The logical solution is to provide for proper funding mechanisms to spread books around while fairly compensating writers and publishers. Best-sellers are rare. Content suffers because compensation is typically so low. Even writers employed in other jobs find themselves spending less time on individual books than they could if rewards were fairer. The Internet alone will not preserve our nation's history and literary heritage.
Resources come and go.
Publishers both thrive and die. Thousands of sites, some reliable, some not, make up the World Wide Web. Literacy experts report a strong correlation between love of learning and the variety of books available. In addition, TeleReaders could run educational software and serve as a low-cost way to get on the Internet. With auxiliary keyboards they could be used for writing school papers and for electronic mail.