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I know from my own habits pre/post ereading this is true. I used to find it very difficult to walk past a book store and now I can't remember the last time I was in one. The reason is that I used to have a short window of time to find/buy the books I wanted to read, they weren't the top 10 best sellers and they probably never went into a second printing so you bought it then or you might never find it again.
The power of the backlist is really dependant on the genre though. For Fantasy or Historical Fiction it really doesn't matter if it was written two months ago or two decades ago. For a lot of Science Fiction it doesn't matter either but some gets dated by new scientific findings. Spy Thrillers that thrive on the latest gadgets get dated quickly. I've been ready a series of detective mysteries that started in the 80's and it's interesting to travel back in time to the pre cell phone era and the first personal computers. A lot of the non Fiction books still have a short window of opportunity.
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