Old's cool

Ignoring the paradox of the post title to look at it's function here: merely a trawl through the non-Internet and unApp world of longer works. I didn't want an app title if it wasn't an apt title and books are simply too long to reasonably compare. The point of the long form entertainments may not be less ease of access but they possess it as a feature. The preparation for a night to the theatre to view a play include buying the ticket, hiring a babysitter, paying for parking or the tram to get there. The investment in time to read a book, unless it is didactic or repetitive in tone, is considerably greater than accessing the same information from the World Wide Web, in the app or out.

This is why we could look at a consumer comparison of a novel on an eReader such as Kindle with a hard cover or paperback but a summary - one hopes - can't replace the work itself so that leaves all those critic and fan sites serving a secondary purpose.
Short stories will continue to be written and read and there will always be those who want more information on growing plums, unclogging a sink or selling tighty whities than is covered in the app. Or, perhaps of hapless apps, if they plan on growing a variety of stone fruit, remove matter from any region that requires the passage of water or are in the "ningerie" industry.
Choose your own example.
Just as the reference work goes into more depth - not inevitably but let's stick with the platonic ideal - the web page can be more up to the minute. Then it depends on the format you choose, along with the amount of information vs currency of information you want.

In my sphere of poetry, the poem can be disseminated in any number of ways: from live on stage, on the printed page, online. or broadcast in numerous visual and audio formats. We are really spoiled for choice. 

There is always a live audience for those talks and speeches, the spoken word performance, the comedy act; even knowing full well there's live streaming of those on stage. This isn't that startling as radio plays and TV game shows before them did both simultaneously. They were more controlled but was this a good thing or a bad thing?