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This is just more scare tactics brought on by a combination of technophobia and kainotophobia (fear of change).
People through the past several hundred years took the time to read books. It does not matter if it is a book on an electronic device or a paper book, retention should be the same, which is based on the person.
Now if you consider more people that simply love and live by technology that have existing "conditions" like short attention spans and lack of material retention will be getting these ereaders, simply because they are technology based, are added to the existing core of people that already read plenty paper and ebooks, and retain a decent amount, the overall results will be skewed. It will appear that people with ereaders have a lower attention span and retention than those reading paper books.
So there needs to be a weighted set of averages, to concentrate on people that have previously or continue to read paper based books which allows for a proper set of data relating to attention spans and retention of material.
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