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My friends and I are grappling with this question now. I've come down on the side of consistently reading every day with the kids (a la Alice Ozma's The Reading Promise), and incorporating a nook/ipad to accomplish this - mostly because I agree that kids will model what they learn early on and I can only see their future consisting of mainly electronic access to literature.
Outside of reading ebooks before bedtime, if we are out in a restaurant - we have a tablet with us. If they want to play a game, there's a time limit, with an equal time spent reading a book before earning more "game time". Plus there are some great apps for creating your own instant e-book by drawing pics and adding words. It's more about engaging their creativity to start "writing" their own stories or even make up their own games and then drawing the digital pics to accompanied what they are imagining. It's better than reality tv watching what the kids will come up with in the process storytelling - chocolate bunnies with magical kungfu that ride on the back of blue ponies and eat raw pizza dough (the source of their secret powers).
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