What you fail to realize, young one, is that there are literally thousands and thousands of books available for FREE....public domain books, whose authors knew how to write enduring stories, that remain interesting today, unlike so many current bestselling authors.
There are independent authors, many who are members here, who offer their books almost free........these are people who write because its their love, not for the money.
An ebook reader is about so much more than buying the latest and greatest.
For those with vision problems, it allows them to read at any font they need to, for failing eyesight.
For those with mobility problems, it allows them to read books that they wouldn't be able to hold in paper versions.....to heavy, etc, in a device smaller than a paper back.
Those who just love to read, can take their entire library with them, anywhere, and read what they choose when they choose.
And those who choose to download books to support the 'capitalist agenda' have a right to do that also.
In my opinion, the "advance of the social evolution of the species" will come when those like yourself, who expect to be paid for breathing, are gone.
Now, go back to the basement in your mothers house and eat some cheese poofs.