Until now, the best the computer industry has been able to offer to support narrative writing are cumbersome and expensive approximations to the printed book with flickering pages and jagged letters. But that is changing as, one by one, the advantages of a printed book over a computer are disappearing. Let me address the well-worn arguments. You can't read a Web page in bed. Yes, you can, and you don't need a light.
People can read text faster and more carefully from a printed page than a computer screen.
You can trust a book. Of the misleading or downright inaccurate books on that list, many of them bear the imprint of otherwise reputable publishers. The authority of a text comes not from printer's ink, but from the process of refereeing and criticism. I could continue, but comparing pages to computer screens, or books to Web sites, misses the point. Soon it will devour the television.