All this fandango surrounding books and ebooks and which is better, stronger, etc. is simply an sign of an ongoing paradigm shift.
Ebooks are here to stay, much like the automobile was, no matter what barriers some might try to put up (and that;s what the first article - and many others like it - is attempting to do.)
I wonder if my great-grandfather and his father headbutted about which was better: the horse or the car?
Hmmm....