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I have a Kindle. One of the reasons I purchased it was because I liked the Amazon store, prices and set-up. I am also mostly a SciFi/Fantasy reader and find TOR/Baen a good place to pick up some blind buys. I simply have no space for anymore books in my home. I used to collect them and let myself get out of hand. It took years of flea markets, garage sales, library give aways before I widdled it down to a managable amount. Some of them I didn't even read. I find having them on my computer so much better that in some cases I don't mind I will never have them to resell. Heck, most of them were purchased by resellers anyway. Only my 'Coffee Table' picture books were brought new and I still have those. My paperbooks are mostly gone, except for maybe 200 or so that I like to return to and several boxes of my favorite comics and Trade paperbacks. I'm going to have to take a picture of some of what I have left.
Back to topic...ebooks is still in it's infancy. I have been told that most book readers are older woman and since not many of us are into modern technology I don't think p-books will go away completely but I know they are in decline and there is nothing anyone can do about it. Publishing firms are just trying to hold on to their revenue like everyone else. They are going to fail but that doesn't stop them from trying. Right now the economy is getting bad, watch the prices go down and when it gets better they will try to go up again but it's not going to happen but at least with e-books they don't have huge warehouses filled with books they can't sell.
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