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VHS beat Betamax. Blu-Ray beat HD-DVD. It didn't take long before you couldn't buy a Betamax machine or a Blu-Ray machine. Cars beat horses as a practical mode of transportation. Tablets may outsell e-ink devices, but they haven't beat them in any meaningful sense. MP3 players haven't driven CD players off the market. None of us are going to have any difficulty finding an e-ink device to read, there simply is too much advantage for that segment of the market to disappear: low power consumption, lighter weight and ease of reading in bright light. It doesn't matter to me whether tablets sell more, I'm not interested in being on the "winning team", I only want to be able to have an e-ink device to read by books.
I do think that dedicated readers may eventually fall by the wayside when e-ink improves to the point when it can match the color and refresh speed of LCD. Not that long ago, e-ink was something out of science fiction, it's a young technology with a lot of upside in the future. When you go into a store, you see monitors used for static displays. E-ink would be ideal for that, but color needs to be made practical for that to happen.
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