Ebooks' Tower of Babel

In the Biblical story of the Tower of Babel, people woke up one morning and began to talk to each other as usual, but could no longer understand each other. In the global expansion of ebooks, that is what the world is waking up to today. France and Germany, in particular, with their strong history of book culture, has resisted Google's attempts at, in its own words,"organizing the knowledge of the world". They have taken Google to court, and started their own digitization projects -- Gallica, Europeana and Libreka -- according to O'Reilly's "The Global Ebook Market:Current Conditions and Future Projections", which is downloadable for free here: http://search.oreilly.com/?q=global+ebook+market&x=22&y=15 . What is the future of digital reading and learning? A patchwork of different formats, devices and accesses. You can't help but sense, as you read this wonderfully comprehensive report, that the very real execution of ebook globalization will be the opposite of a one-world dream, the hope of all globalists. What is the opposite of being a globalist? Let's say being a globalister. Then, a globalister is someone who knows that the example of the Tower of Babel applies to the worldwide expansion of digital communication.