Carr is on point here: "There's a lesson here, I think, for book publishers. Readers today are forced to choose between buying a physical book or an ebook, but a lot of them would really like to have both on hand - so they'd be able, for instance, to curl up with the print edition while at home (and keep it on their shelves) but also be able to load the ebook onto their e-reader when they go on a trip. In fact, bundling a free electronic copy with a physical product would have a much bigger impact in the book business than in the music business."

"My worry is that we have lost our compass. We have forgotten that our raison d'être is to produce not simply a quantity of published works, but, rather, thoughtful, carefully considered, well-researched, cogently argued scholarship that moves disciplinary knowledge forward."