The digital revolution offers an extraordinary gift to humanity: unfettered access to all published content. But at what cost? Does the erosion of copyright mean the end of writers? And what does the death of the book mean for the way we learn? "We co-evolve with our tools. Certainly the book has probably changed us more than any other tool", Jeff Bezos, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, argues. So what does it mean when our most important tool for the last 500 years disappears? The worry is that a future without books may be a dark one. "Our children I think are lurching from one entertaining piece of information to the next; they aren''t learning how to think." The digital shift has created angry confrontations across the publishing industry, as Amazon and traditional publishers engage in a bitter struggle. Scott Turow, President of the Authors Guild, claims Amazon are intentionally destroying physical bookstores and therefore harming authors. "If you destroy the physical bookstore by