I think this will become more and more common. So publishers and book writers would have to focus harder on making the physical object worthy of taking up space

I think this will become more and more common. So publishers and book writers would have to focus harder on making the physical object worthy of taking up space. It's the tactile feeling that differentiate books from OCR scanned pages in a PDF. And wise publishers would use this differentiation to sell books when e-books is more popular.