Links To Resources on the Future of Reading:

Reading at Risk: A Survey of Literary Reading in America, National Endowment of the Arts
The Future of Reading, Tom Peters, Library Journal, 11/01/2009
The Future of Reading, Jonah Lehrer, Wired Science
To Read Or Not to Read: A Question of National Importance, National Endowment of the Arts
Considering the Future of Reading: Lessons, Links and Thought Experiments, Katherine Schulten and Shannon Doyne, The Learning Network, NY Times
The Future of Reading, Rochester Institute of Technology 2010 Conference
The Institute for the Future of the Book

"We know how to create games where the formal mechanics are about climbing a ladder of status. I don't know how to make a game that is about the loneliness of being at the top, but I think I can see we might get there."
- Raph Koster A Theory of Fun For Game Design (info)