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Yup, and because.
Some things aren't available as e-books (older backlist stuff I can only find used, more recent titles which haven't come out yet and may never, things with Canadian e-rights in limbo or by an author that may not be able to afford/convince a publisher to do the e-conversion, plenty of specialized non-fiction outside the "popular reading" lists).
Some things just don't work nearly as well in e-book format (artbooks, graphic novels, certain forms of non-fiction, especially reference works).
Some things I'm not willing to pay the asking e-book price compared to the paper price for (Suzanne Arruda's Jade del Cameron series only ever comes out in HC/TPB. The TPBs cost me roughly $12-14 CAD, the e-books are priced at $11. Guess which I buy?)
I see both formats as having their own inherent advantages and disadvantages, but have no particular preference for either format (barring egregious errors in either like horrible OCR/layout or tiny squinty ugly fonts/poor binding), so I'm willing to get whatever works for me.
Use the right tool for the right job, and all that.
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