Self-publishing is no longer stigmatized and ebooks are outselling hard copies. If you are reading this you get that technology is dismantling the publishing industry.
Kant was also born in 1724, a coincidence not lost on Editions Silverbridge, the publisher of Birth of the Cunt. The video was recorded Nov. 5, 2010...
It is quite conceivable that multimedia forms will reinvent how we do storytelling and how we provide information. Why assume that a linear story is best?