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To be fair, the one drawback I see with screen page #'s is that they would not be as useful in referring to a part of a book to another person. However, my main use of page #'s is to tell me where I am in the book I am reading.
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That's not a small drawback at all. Your solution would make it virtually impossible to reference specific portions of an ebook in a book club or academic setting.
Screen pages don't really exist. They're ephemeral and ever changing from font-size (and even font) to font-size. I think it's much more important to have a universal reference number that isn't dependent on other data. That way, I don't have to tell someone; "I'm on page 103 (on the fourth largest font-setting, using a customized helvetica font—font-file attached for reference)"
The usefulness of the printed page # would be the same book club/academic scenario above where you had a mixture of printed books and ebooks. The printed page # that Kindle books refer to is based on a specific print edition. ISBN given in the product details.