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Couple of comments:
First, while page numbers may be the standard in quoting for a paper, this wasn't quoting for a paper, this was in a classroom. If the entire classroom - and the professor - can't think of doing a full text search for something unique to that page, that's not a problem with the book format, that's a classroom full of idiots.
Second, my nook has page numbers. If they don't coincide with the page numbers in the paper version, that's a) no more a problem than two different paper editions, and b) not a problem with the ebook format so much as a problem with a publisher that hasn't gotten the details figured out yet. (If nothing else, the .epub format could easily have pages hard coded in. Be clumsy, and ugly as hell, but it would give you page numbers that you can control.)
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