tirsales, I truely share your view that e-readers might be a good substitute (+ extension!) of the p-book. I'm even enthusiastic for it. But I also agree we are not there yet, so p-books are not outdated yet. (And unless an e-reader gets to be actually cheaper than a single p-book, it will never be a true substitute for holidays to leave it back on the beach while going swimming..)
nekokami, also agree. I don't remember exactly. Which greek philosopher was famous for his worries about (hand)writing destroying culture? Sokrates, Platon or Aristoteles? I guess it was one of these first-suspects
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Oh btw, I believe that some "inclusive hypertext technology" might be much of help to get the authorship issue, in peoples mind.
Current HTML allows you to *link* to other pages, but it does not allow you to include content of other sites into yours, and make this even visible. This would be to be used instead of copy/paste. I know iframe can do it to some limited extend, but it is actually that, limited. However it comes with the problems that to my experience non-acedmic people don't want to be "cited". They want they content on their website, in their presentation and nowhere else. Its something you actually get implicitly teached on an academic lifepath. Being cited is a honor and not theft. Obvious for us, not-so-obvious for "normally socialized" people.
So for me its definitely not Googles fault, its the fault of how current HTML/HTTP/Web works.