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Print books aren't going away until ereader device makers fix the problems with the technology: they suck for anything that's not linear novels.
I *adore* linear novels, read them by the dozen, but there is not an ereader on the market that's good for academic research or business purposes; they're lousy for teaching kids to read; the browsing-through-collection options range from mediocre to pathetic; annotations and bookmarking are both crude and horribly limited... the limitations of ebooks are extensive.
They are indeed wonderful for read-once novels. They will decimate the MMPB market. However, their inroads to other markets--schools for all ages, businesses, libraries, personal sharing collections--is slow and full of setbacks, mostly tangled around DRM but some involving proprietary hardware or software issues.
We don't need YouTube support on ereaders; we need functional TOCs and bookmarks.
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