"--- We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing committment to the preservation of printed works worldwide"
It just does not read well. Elected?? Elected what to bring the book back?
If you don't think it reads well, that's fair enough, but it has nothing to do with the grammar of standard English. OED
elect 2a is "To make deliberate choice of (a course of action, an opinion, etc.) in preference to an alternative". OED definition 2b is "with infinitive as obj. (Now common, but formerly chiefly in legal use)." In other words,
elect can mean "choose" and be followed by an infinitive.
Those passages you quote seem despairing to me, for instance "The present order of things is not likely to keep the written word readable for another five centuries." In any case, my point is that he has provided no evidence, at least in those passages. Maybe he does in the rest of the book.
