Man, this is hilarious.
A day or so ago, Publisher's Weekly ran an article talking about how ebook sales jumped by 150% and cites this as evidence that ebooks are an unstoppable juggernaut.
Sounds to me like Christopher Mims is the one who is taking the ebook-related press a bit too seriously. Ebooks are clearly on the rise, they're making inroads in education, ebook reader prices are dropping, ebook infrastructure is spreading to numerous platforms. Paper books are likely to persist in many forms for many years to come, but it won't be long before ebooks are just as routine as MP3's and streaming video.