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We have seen booming growth for ebook industry and now ebook share is flattening and growth slowed down. Many peoples have drawn conclusion like, ebooks have reached (or reaching) their saturation point, so now ebooks and printed will coexist. Some gone to an extent that printed books will never go (<-- i am really curious what is the idea behind).

Up-till now there is no shortage of older generation who admire printed books no matter if they also read ebooks. So lets say after 5 year or may decade when, that generation retire and we have totally new breeds who were never (or rarely) introduced to printed books instead they were exposed via ebooks way alone, will not then printed books slowly extinct?

Printed books definitely offer some privilege but what will be the point in wasting physical resource that challenging we are facing now and will be more difficult times ahead.

--EDIT--
My point is growth in ebook market that we have seen, was mainly because of adoption phenomena and not largely due to replacement of printed, so the final kick to printed is yet to happen.