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I think the idea was that if you are to use ebooks, you have to have something to read them on. If they don't have anything to read them on, then they're not fans of ebooks, and are just seeing us as potential sales and nothing more. For instance, the one example of the author trying to shill their books, but then stating that they don't actually read ebooks because they like real books. It can kinda be insulting.
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If a favorite author chooses to make comments about their books or the publishing industry or their feelings on the future print books, e-books as opposed to simply shilling their book, I would see that as contributing to the community whether they owned an e-reader or not, even if they wanted to post their objections to e-books.
If an author does have an e-reader does that now entitled them to self-promote? Are there valuable members of the community who don't see any particular value in listing the brand of their e-reader?
I don't question the logic of if you want to sell books you should probably own an e-reader. On the other hand, I don't think anybody would seriously want to apply it as a litmus test or say people who don't own e-readers don't belong here or are not going to be able to or be capable of contributing to the community. Or as somebody said earlier you can measure somebody's contribution to a community by the number of their posts or the amount of their Karma.
Right?