Since I wasn't around in 2005 I voted today, and behold, I'm with the large majority.
When this thread was new I have been working in eBoook business for about three years. That pre-ePub market stagnated until early 2009 (in Europe, where the Kindle wasn't around).
That (European) market reached a new level with 2010, and I'm still working in it (more successful than ever), but we're still a long way from eBooks becoming mainstream or the dominant reading media.
Technology does change, but humans do much slower (if, at all). There is a reason why the book has been around for so long. Humans are attached to it; smell, haptic, physical presence.
And the printed book will be around for our life time, and it will outsell (globally) eBooks by a wide margin.
The printed book even has a revolutionary touch by now: it is the last media that withholds modern technology as much as possible (DTP being another matter). Meanwhile, one may look at us eBook enthusiasts as lemmings who need the very last part of the world technologized.
I would prefer both concepts, pBook and eBook, to co-exist side by side for the time to come. This means, there'd always be an alternative, a different reality, another way to perceive the way things "have" to be. A core concept of reading, after all.
They do both appeal to different needs and opportunities, for readers as well as for authors and publishers.