Blog topic for the week of March 1

In your informed yet imaginative opinion, what will the book publishing industry look like ten years from now? Will consolidation continue (or accelerate), leaving even fewer, bigger publishing conglomerates (and bookstore chains) than we have today? Will the low entry cost of POD and E-Book technologies feed a burgeoning renaissance of small press publishing? Or?... And?... And what does it all mean for the future of literacy and culture? (Just a few small questions, for your final assigned topic of the term.)