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Michael Buerk/Lynne Truss

Aye Write! Perhaps we secretly love to believe the internet is all-powerful and former BBC man Michael Buerk rang the death knell of printed journalism - once again at the hands of the web.

Mitchell Library, Glasgow Lesley McDowell About eight years ago at another book festival, Andreas Whittam Smith confidently predicted the demise of the printed book at the hands of the internet.