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Ebook readers aren't great for academic uses. They're okay for reading novels or linear nonfiction, but there's limited ability for bouncing around between sections of textbooks, and the annotation abilities of most ebook readers fall a bit short of what many students need.
Ebook readers are terrific for "read these four books for this class;" much less useful for "compare chapter 4 of book X to chapters 9 and 10 of book Y." (Especially since many commercial ebooks don't have tables of contents/bookmarked chapters.) We're a ways off yet, from ebook readers taking the place of heavy physical books.
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