Anyone who thinks that e-books are a fad that will pass and that paper books will come roaring back, I'm afraid you are going to be disappointed.
From personal experience I can tell you that I, a conventional book junkie, fell off the paper book cliff into the arms of the e-book community with little more than a feather's push. As I've written before I didn't even want a Kindle, and yet since my wife gave me one I've not been able to go back and read a single paper book since. I might grumble and gripe about the price, and I get wistful when I drive by the Half Price Bookstore, but for the most part I love the e-book experience.
Secondly, in terms of emperical evidence, one need only go read Nathan Bransford's post yesterday called Here comes another round of articles about e-book sales slowing down. He does a terrific job of breaking down the arguments and showing that if anything e-book sales are steady and/or climbing. Well worth a look see.
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