I had a conversation with a clerk in Staples, an office supply store, about the Kindle. They sell it there and I told the clerk I had one. He said he liked "real books." I said, "Yeah, when books came out, there were people who said, "I really like the feel of a scroll in my hands.'" Then I demonstrated reading from a scroll. He and others around laughed. Hopefully, humor made the point as he later admitted the screen on the Kindle was way easier on the eyes than an LCD screen and more like a paper book.
Electronic readers are still new technology and will people have to go through the "resistance to change and the new" psychology. In time, the average person will accept them.
But then, the Luddites will always resist.
Dean